what make is the best external pond pump.?

Question

about 5,500 uk gallons

Answer 1

My personal choice is PONDMASTER
they are magnetic drive rarely, if ever break only need to replace the impellers no oil to leak out and worry about.
http://www.pondmaster.com/

Answer 2

External Pond Pumps Uk

Answer 3

I made mine to serve two 3000gal ponds separated by a waterfall. I took a high volume low pressure agricultural transfer pump with a bad 8hp gas engine and adapted a three speed (one, one third and one twelfth horsepower) electric motor. Lower speeds keep the filtration going at a modest cost. High speed sends water over a three foot wide, three foot high waterfall. RScott

Answer 4

I agree, I really like my PondMaster mag drive pump. It is very well made and you can get replacement rotating elements when the original wears down.

They have at least one 5000 GPH pump.

Answer 5

A Nation of garden owners, not garden lovers.
Here in the UK each man has to own his own patch of green, be it a postage stamp size of grass and flower boarders or a pond full of koi carp!
Well over the last couple of months I have seen the best and the worst sides of small gardens.
First we will start with the green pools and what ever the shape and size they could make a feature in any small private garden, but the festering pools of green slime and green water add nothing to a summers night sitting by a clear pool where the pond owners can sit and watch their fish move about in the water and see the coloured pebbles on the bottom of the pond.
The secret to a clear pool is to work with natura and the natural thing to do is use a bog garden, reed bed or both.
A Bog Garden Filtration is an area, which consistently has a water level several inches below the surrounding garden surface. In nature a bog soils are usually very high in organic materials and a low ph, using a semi permeable liner an ornamental bog garden have to have these conditions in order to grow plants such as the venous fly traps and sun dews which have adapted to these areas. To act as a filtration a bog garden should be constructed of a waterproof pond liner, pea gravel and peat, the bog may utilise a wide range of marginal pond plants, bog plants and even many standard garden plants, the water is moved through the bog slowly taking out all the nutritions put there when feeding fish or from decaying vegtable matter on the bottom of the pond.

The movement of water through these bog gardens have two primary functions. The bog filter provides the perfect background to the pond, showcasing plants, while allowing more pond surface area to remain open. It also more natural when moving from land to pond.

The second and in my oppinion is the filtration of the water, bog gardens are the ultimate pond filter for water purity, clarity, low maintenance and working with natuer. Man made filters can not completely process organic waste, including solid waste, inorganic waste and minerals.

Man made filters merely mechanically trap debris, and biologically detoxify waste by products still build up in the water and create various problems, including a build-up of nitrates and phosphates, which promote algae growth. In a bog filter, gravel traps organic debris until it can be broken down by bacteria and used by the plants. All by-products are processed and used as food by the microbes and plants. Nature can balance itself, given the opportunity.
You may be the time to experiment with Hydroponics tomatoes
Excellent fast growing ground covers to consider are creeping Jenny, Water Cress (edible!) variegated or green water celery (edible!), and aquatic mint (edible!). These fast growers will provide the bulk of the nutrient absorption, and will soften the transition between pond and land; in fact, they will probably grow out into the soil bordering the bog and fill in between the taller marginal plants. When planting the bog filter, wash soil away from the plant's root ball. Plant the entire root ball in the gravel. A small amount of soil will not harm the pond or filter, and will help the plant adjust to it's new home. To achieve a full effect, use up to one plant per square foot of bog filter surface, or as little as one plant per three square feet and let time do the rest. Fewer plants may mean reduced filtration until they fill in.

For faster cycling of nutrients, inoculate the pond with a pond bacterial culture. This is a good idea with a new pond, or if the pond accumulates organic debris quickly.

Little maintenance is required, other than harvesting excess plant material and some trimming of dead foliage in the autumn. Trim and divide plants as needed. When plants are overcrowded, their growth slows, and they are not pulling as many nutrients from the water. Ground-cover plants grow especially quick. Pulling plants out of gravel is quick and easy, as is trimming. Don't feel bad about harvesting them, as they make great compost and your garden is a better place for the nutrients than your pond. People and Koi will enjoy watercress, as a snack.

With bacterial inoculation, sediment will build up very slowly, if at all. Every year or two, a partial cleaning of the gravel may be required, but probably only in areas where large amounts of inorganic debris are deposited (such as where wind blows dust in). The smaller the bog the more often it needs to have the deposits removed.

Note: Many installers use one pump to operate a waterfall/stream bed, and a 2nd pump to operate the bog filter. One pump may be used for both. A way to do this is to have the waterfall/stream bed empty into the bog filter or the bog empty into the waterfall.

There is a benefit in having a waterfall prior to the bog, Oxygen. The aerobic microbes, exposed to higher levels of dissolved Oxygen allow them to maintain high levels of population and activity. There can be many variations to these basic designs. Existing ponds may be retrofitted with a bog filter by making the bog slightly higher than the main pond, and connecting the two with a stream bed; they don't even need to be that close to one another. Bog filters work incredibly well in promoting crystal clear water, exerting a high degree of control over algae, by removing the nutrients produced by the fish, birds and other creatures visiting your pond.

Answer 6

So about 2000 gal/hr?

Check Ebay. There are more than you can shake a stick at.