Water Gardening: Do you have or recommend a BOTTOM DRAIN in your pond?, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
Now how did that picture turn itself sideways? Before I correct that I found something else I want to change and maybe I should do it right away. This skimmer is a pool skimmer and not at all what I see on pond sites. It's basically just a strain bucket but being that there is not enough suction because of the distance involved, it doesn't do much skimming either. I used to find fish in there when they were small and now I have some pleckos which like it in the bucket. They seem to be none worse for the trip but I would like a real pond skimmer on a separate pump and filter setup. I just don't know where to put the pump & filter. All the pumps and filters are far away from this point. I need to think some more on this.