Discovered this forum when I was searching for answers regarding a leak I have. Here's my situation:
Lost some fish over the winter and was given a suggestion to salt the pond which would kill any parasites. Dosed with 1/3 the amount of salt (diluted in water) and got up the next morning and the pond water was down over halfway. Read that salting can cause small cracks etc. to leak......my pond guy says he never heard of that.
I shut off the pump and filled the pond all the way last night. This morning no water loss so assuming the leak is in the pipe from the skimmer to the biofalls - no evidence in the ground. Have walked the stream and no evidence of water loss from there. Turned the pump back on and refilled to the top after the stream etc. was filled up......that was 3 hours ago and no water loss??? What the heck?
We lost a lot of water in 12 hours with no evidence of where it went and now the level is down less than 1/4" after 3 hours.....
Thoughts?
Lost some fish over the winter and was given a suggestion to salt the pond which would kill any parasites. Dosed with 1/3 the amount of salt (diluted in water) and got up the next morning and the pond water was down over halfway. Read that salting can cause small cracks etc. to leak......my pond guy says he never heard of that.
I shut off the pump and filled the pond all the way last night. This morning no water loss so assuming the leak is in the pipe from the skimmer to the biofalls - no evidence in the ground. Have walked the stream and no evidence of water loss from there. Turned the pump back on and refilled to the top after the stream etc. was filled up......that was 3 hours ago and no water loss??? What the heck?
We lost a lot of water in 12 hours with no evidence of where it went and now the level is down less than 1/4" after 3 hours.....
Thoughts?