My pond build. :-)

[Prosperitea]

Isn't the live rock the lighter weight rock .I know I have what the call here feather rock it is light weight but when you pick it up you better have long sleeves on and gloves it is like razor blades .I actually did like the stock tank it was cute

I did like the stock tank as well. I wanted more fish in there and I did not think it would work in favor of the fish if I added more. So I built the big one. believe or not I did the first large pond digging filling it up and rock work in 5 hours.

 

[sissy]

reclining pond watch the will make that a spa thing now relaxing in your pond .Your a fast worker if that only took 5 hours .Wrinkled toes and fingers later the fish got to enjoy it .Hope you don't get caught out there lounging in the pond with the fish saying what the heck lol

 

[Prosperitea]

I wanted to get done early for a few reasons. Here in my part of FL it gets hot in the spring FAST. When I started it was 75 out side. When I turned the pump on for the first time after it was all set up it was 89 and humid. I also was going sailing in mid afternoon. ;-) lots of motivation. ;-)

 

[sissy]

Light a fire under you and you move ,great motivation for getting done lol

 

[Prosperitea]

Light a fire under you and you move ,great motivation for getting done lol

I am high energy and it drives her nuts. lol.

 

[sissy]

oh great poor thing

 

[addy1]

Great job! very nice post of your project

 

[Prosperitea]

Okay, so I hooked up my two so called 750gph pumps to my filter. Just seems that it is slow to come out. Can someone tell me the optimal flow for a 55g BD? How can I tell how fast the water really is flowing into the barrel?

 

[koidaddy]

To tell how fast you need a way to catch the water comming out the filter in a 5 gallon bucket and time it to see how fast it fills. You will need to do some math to figure gph.

 

[Prosperitea]

To tell how fast you need a way to catch the water comming out the filter in a 5 gallon bucket and time it to see how fast it fills. You will need to do some math to figure gph.

Okay, The water fills the 5g bucket up in 55seconds roughly. so that means it is pumping out around 300gph? I do not think that is enough for this set up. :-( I have the two 750gph pumps hooked up to the system. I think I know what the issue is. I could not find a Y to put the hoses to one hose to the BD. I had to use a T so it is probably messing up the flow there? Ideas?

 

[Prosperitea]

I have another pump that shows from research that it can be run all the time and be safe. It draws 2.9amps max. Would that run up my power bill a lot?

 

[koiguy1969]

i can tell you most of us run 1000 - 1200 gph thru our drums.
Q...what size hose are you using? and how much head is there?

 

[sissy]

That would depend on you electric rates but that is a small amount of amps .Does it say on it how much watts it uses that is a better indicator .

 

[Prosperitea]

Does not indicate watts used. By my math it should draw 348 watts. and should cost around 30 a month to run.

 

[sissy]

I bought a energy rating meter that shows how much electricity anything uses .You just plug the item in and it shows you how much electric it is using .My electric bill a month on a 2440 sq.ft house a month is around 125 to 135 dollars a month .