Water Gardening: Re-using a above ground pool filter and pump?...help please!, 1 by SusanaLyn

SusanaLyn wrote:
WOW!...randbponder...you've been through ALOT!...as alot of us I see here have...we're all very determined people I guess...survivors as I have been told so many times in my life...I surely have been through so much hardship myself with my family and their illnesses and deaths...anyways...I am still pondering what waterfall feature to buy...I think the 48 inch Atlanutic brand biological filter/spillway is maybe TOO BIG for my pond?...even though is will be about 25 feet long by 10 feet wide by roughly 3 and half feet deep/overall in the end run...I think the water movement would be too rough for the waterlilys I plan to grow again and I was going to build or get a skimmer...but then I was thinking...don't your floating pond plants get sucked into them?...I would have a little bit of duckweed and water lettuce floating around...and some of them are pretty tiny...my neighbor across the street brought me a whole bucket full the other day/babies and I haven't put them in the pond yet because that would be dumb being that everything has to come out of it...so they along with my water hyacinths/lilys/and other water plants. are all in holding buckets and containers on the old brick patio...in waiting and it gets late into the summer already...gheez!...I also looked at that Torpedo pump...a 7500 gallon an hour one...do any of you think this is a good choice for my size pond?...or will it be too strong...this will basically be for the waterfall...I may split the flow two ways also with a diverter split to extend into the old waterfall which I may repair or put a smaller biologcal spillway there also...I don't know yet...but I am thinking on it and I do have my small submersible recirculating pumps for extra spitters and a wintertime always running small flow of water...I always leave that one I have running all the time...I don't even remember how big it is OR what brand it is as it's never failed and it's been in the water for a good 20 years I guess and..."knock on wood"...it take a licking and keeps on ticking!...shhhhhhh...te,he...I am SO tempted to get another Magdrive pump...but I had bought a 3200 gallon an hour one about 4 years ago and it worked great for just under when the warranty expired on it...about a year I guess and MAN was I mad when it broke because the garden center I got it from would not help me at all on that and it was ALOT of money back then...around just under $300.00 with state sales tax!...well.........I am off to research for now and get MORE confused!:)

I am also going to put some pic's here...this first one here is how the pond used to look when all the belgian blocks were where they were supposed to be...