Solar Air Pump for Fish Pond! - RIP Clark Spent: -
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Date: 2021-05-17
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Brumbieman
Mate - use the solar power to pump some water 40-50m up the hill you have there, and dig in a little artificial creek full of reeds and gravel/sand, little rock waterfalls etc. You get fresh oxygenated water flowing into your pond, and algae infested water getting sucked out and cycled through a natural creek system. Get the balance of plants etc right and you'll end up with a system that cleans itself and if you get it really right, your trout will have a gravel/sand base pool with fresh water bubbling into it that they can spawn in - then your fish stock replenishes itself.
Just install a water tank as high up the hill above your pond as you can (observe where the water will flow so, follow a natural 'gully' upwards from the pond until you reach it's origin and install the tank there. Have the pipe from your pond be an inch or two larger than the outlet pipe from the tank so that during the day the inflow is greater than the outflow and the tank fills. At night, the tanks slowly empties, then the sun comes up and it refills. This gives you a permanent flow from the top of the hill - you'll have a crystal clear pond in a few months with healthy fish that can breed naturally, and have an actual creek to swim in, making them healthier and tastier for eating.
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Mate - use the solar power to pump some water 40-50m up the hill you have there, and dig in a little artificial creek full of reeds and gravel/sand, little rock waterfalls etc. You get fresh oxygenated water flowing into your pond, and algae infested water getting sucked out and cycled through a natural creek system. Get the balance of plants etc right and you'll end up with a system that cleans itself and if you get it really right, your trout will have a gravel/sand base pool with fresh water bubbling into it that they can spawn in - then your fish stock replenishes itself.
Just install a water tank as high up the hill above your pond as you can (observe where the water will flow so, follow a natural 'gully' upwards from the pond until you reach it's origin and install the tank there. Have the pipe from your pond be an inch or two larger than the outlet pipe from the tank so that during the day the inflow is greater than the outflow and the tank fills. At night, the tanks slowly empties, then the sun comes up and it refills. This gives you a permanent flow from the top of the hill - you'll have a crystal clear pond in a few months with healthy fish that can breed naturally, and have an actual creek to swim in, making them healthier and tastier for eating.
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Mihai
This is not how an aerator for trout looks. Its junk!
Get a brushless motor with an esc and conect it to a surface paddle aerator and you can also use the solar pannel.
It eill only help with the oxigen on hot days but the filtration system that you have is crap and you will loose all the fish in the autumn( the trouts, bass will survive.
Over time your pond will be worse and worse, dirrtyer with more phosphorus in it.
Learn the phosphorus cycle and how it acumulates in lakes.
Your best bet in cleaning that pond its to harvest the algae that floats and discard it far away from the pond not near the pond because the rain will put the phosphate from decaying algae back into the lake and your work was useless.
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This is not how an aerator for trout looks. Its junk!
Get a brushless motor with an esc and conect it to a surface paddle aerator and you can also use the solar pannel.
It eill only help with the oxigen on hot days but the filtration system that you have is crap and you will loose all the fish in the autumn( the trouts, bass will survive.
Over time your pond will be worse and worse, dirrtyer with more phosphorus in it.
Learn the phosphorus cycle and how it acumulates in lakes.
Your best bet in cleaning that pond its to harvest the algae that floats and discard it far away from the pond not near the pond because the rain will put the phosphate from decaying algae back into the lake and your work was useless.
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Pettyfogger
Pardon me if this has addressed but you really need to shelter the black, solar heated hose but even more, if you are worried about warm pond water, you need to figure out a way to furnish the coolest air into your pumps which are heating air already.
If the ground is impossible to trench to lay in a cooling pipe for air source, a mound of heavy rock that will always be out of sync with the ambient air is another cooling source. Good luck!
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Pardon me if this has addressed but you really need to shelter the black, solar heated hose but even more, if you are worried about warm pond water, you need to figure out a way to furnish the coolest air into your pumps which are heating air already.
If the ground is impossible to trench to lay in a cooling pipe for air source, a mound of heavy rock that will always be out of sync with the ambient air is another cooling source. Good luck!
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Yusi
Is it me or the pond is definitely neither deep enough nor big enough for so many trouts, especially the big ones? This could work if there-s a cold and running spring upstream constantly feeding into the pond. At least this is our rule of thumb back home when people raise trouts.
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Is it me or the pond is definitely neither deep enough nor big enough for so many trouts, especially the big ones? This could work if there-s a cold and running spring upstream constantly feeding into the pond. At least this is our rule of thumb back home when people raise trouts.
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Juan
I'm not expert but scuds could be a good addition to the pond they eat algae and reproduce fast, useful as food to the fish and are harmless to animals, people. Also adding plants could help a lot too. Look for small organisms that eat algae, etc, etc.
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I'm not expert but scuds could be a good addition to the pond they eat algae and reproduce fast, useful as food to the fish and are harmless to animals, people. Also adding plants could help a lot too. Look for small organisms that eat algae, etc, etc.
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David
There are people out there trying to give you advice but you are really leaving this algae problem to late and it's out of control I have told you to put some grass carp in google it and do some homework you will then understand
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There are people out there trying to give you advice but you are really leaving this algae problem to late and it's out of control I have told you to put some grass carp in google it and do some homework you will then understand
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EMS-Survival
Barley straw. Will get rid if the pond skum. You could grow it near the pond. Or buy a few bales from a farmer. Just toss a bale or 3 in. Helps the fish so the dont have to fight the skum.
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Barley straw. Will get rid if the pond skum. You could grow it near the pond. Or buy a few bales from a farmer. Just toss a bale or 3 in. Helps the fish so the dont have to fight the skum.
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Nick
Now put that air stone in an airlift system (couple of pieces of pipe) and see how much extra water movement you get. Nice to see products going down to the States rather than the other way round.
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Now put that air stone in an airlift system (couple of pieces of pipe) and see how much extra water movement you get. Nice to see products going down to the States rather than the other way round.
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Hessel
aren't there way to many nutrients in the water, that's why there are so much algae. adding oxygen will help the algae to grow, you should add waterplants they use the nutrients to groe
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aren't there way to many nutrients in the water, that's why there are so much algae. adding oxygen will help the algae to grow, you should add waterplants they use the nutrients to groe
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Knocking
pumping oxygen under the sun accelerates the growing green algae while there is no filter or predatory algae, it will eat up your oxygen at night and kill the fish
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pumping oxygen under the sun accelerates the growing green algae while there is no filter or predatory algae, it will eat up your oxygen at night and kill the fish
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