Scary skull water fountain with a colour change rotating crystal ball. The crystal ball rotates as the water flows from beneath it, the colour change is enhanced by air bubbles in the crystal ball that catch the light and the colours. The submersible fountain pump operates on 3 AA sized batteries, (not included). Very detailed beautiful item, made from high quality resin. Measures approx. 18cm highest x (base) 12cm (at top) 12cm (at bottom) square base
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Want to Build a Pond?
A pond, logically, the first question you should ask is WHERE? Do you have a huge yard with a lot of trees and shrubs and flowerbeds? In other words what is the present landscape like? Would you prefer your pond in a sunny spot or in the shade? That may not seem too important, but if you should decide to surround your pond with flowers, it becomes very important. It seems (to me at least) that there are many more varieties of flowers that are sun lovers rather than ones that prefer shade. Another consideration also is that if you place your pond too near to trees, then falling leaves become a cleanup problem.
Once you've decided on a location, then the next question is HOW BIG? Do you want a small pond that will only need a few hundred gallons to fill, or something more like what you see in the pictures that accompany this text that holds around three thousand gallons? Do you have a water spigot close enough to your pond location so that you don't need three hundred feet of hose to fill it?
If you are going to have a pond with a pump and filter to re-circulate the water, then you will need an electrical source nearby. Are you thinking of having a water fall or fountain? Do you think that you are going to want fish or other aquatic life in your pond?
Will you need a fence? Does your city or township require fences or any other kind of safeguards around ponds? If there are no local ordinances in this regard, then how about your own personal feelings about keeping such an area safe for small children, who all seem to love water and gravitate to it like bees to honey?
Where is the one really good spot in your yard where you love to sit and commune with nature? If you have a spot like that, then that is probably the perfect place for your pond. Just sitting and watching a waterfall or fountain is very relaxing, and if you've decided to liven up your private little lake, then choose fish like Koi, Comets, and Shabunkins which seem to be quite hardy specimens. They winter well, even here in northern Ohio. We haven't lost one fish to the weather in the eight years we've had our pond.
Now, as to the basic "hardware" needs. Set your mind to having a strong liner, even if it's more expensive. This is the key to a trouble free pond. Firestone makes a liner material called EPDM PondGuard that is tough and very puncture resistant. (Holes in the liner are a real pain in the neck!). Besides the liner, you'll need a submersible water pump, a pond filter, a UV light (sometimes called a UV filter), and a few pond plants.
Just some things to think about before you build your pond.
Friday, November 25, 2011
The Importance of Water Pond Filters and Pumps
Water pond filters are very important to any fish pond, most people often only think about the decoration and the surroundings of the pond itself. To maintain a good quality healthy looking pond you need to have water pond filters in place, the ones that can cope with the size and volume of water in order to keep the pond clean and healthy for you're fish to survive. So when you build your fish pond, you must have the correct pump and filter installed, as these two powerful tools do a tremendous job in removing dirt, leaves, fish waste and other debris that cause bacteria and dangerous levels of pH in the water.
There are lots of different types and variations of water pond filters available on market theses days, like for instance backwashing filters, pressure filters, UV filters and bio filters. To know which type that suits your pond the best is to do a little research on the internet and do some consulting it with the experts. Once you've chosen your water pond filters you will also need to choose the best pump, there are two types of pumps that you can use, the ones that are submersible, and the ones that are housed outside the pond, but both types do a fantastic job.
Submersible pumps are often used to generate fountains and other water features as well as feeding the main filter itself. They are very easy to install and operate, and don't need to be primed or anything like that. These types of pumps have a strainer on the inlet side to prevent fish and debris being sucked into the moving parts. External surface pumps are more powerful and are usually a lot larger and more expensive than the submersible types. If you want to pump up to a waterfall of any distance, then you will need to use a surface pump.
When linking your pump to the water pond filters, make sure that they are both compatible with each other and that the capacity of the pump is suitable for the volume of water in your fish pond. You can do this by checking the output of the pump which is given in gallons (or litters) per hour. This terminology can be a little confusing, but a good rule of thumb is to make sure that the pump can circulate all of the pond water through the filter within one to two hours.
If you want the pump to feed a filter and fountain at the same time, then you will need to consider the effect of the water spurting out of the fountain, the greater the maximum head, the higher the water will spray into the air thus reducing the water circulation time. Majority of pond pumps are powered by electricity, and the growing trend towards solar power has lead to an increase of solar powered pumps. But please consider this, most solar powered pumps are only suitable for fountains and smaller water features, and are not suitable for water pond filters.
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