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It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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Another thing that might help is if you arrange the intake pipe so it is facing down stream, and put some rocks or cement blocks on either side of the intake extending for a few feet down stream, this will allow much debris to flow past the pipe without being sucked in. yeah we did that a few years ago and it really cut down the trash a lot. most of the time we are pumping the water is not actually flowing in the creek it is just still and thats when we collect the most trash. The creek only flows after a good rain or the snow melts off, allowing us only a few days or maybe a week to pump water. Thats why we can't keep it full all the time. We'll get it full then we'll get a drought for a few months and it will all leach out or evaporate. I think our biggest problem with loosing water in the pond is we just can't keep the banks saturated and it dries out. then it takes a lot of water to soak back in before it seals, which makes me think it's not sealed when it really is. Does this sound possible?
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Yes, absolutely! And, it happens to everyone of us. When the water level drops, the banks dry out. Then when the level rises, water wicks back into the dry parts of the banks and dam.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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It depends.... (like all things ponds). Sorry about not getting back to you quicker, I just got back from North Carolina taking my parents to visit my cousin.
Search for the evaporation rates for your area for that particular time frame (time of the year) and see how your pond level corresponds to the evaporation rates when you are not pumping water into the pond.
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we just got about 1.5" of rain in the last day or so and we are getting ready to pump some water from the creek with our new screen/pump setup. Hope it works. We also got all of our habitat/cover into the pond before we fill it full. Made some pallet triangles, placed some tires and other things for some structure. I'll let u know how the pump works.
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well, we ran our pump and it is working very well so far. It is a 300 gal/min pump that we have a 6" discharge pipe connected too. It fills the 6" pipe entirely to the top and seems like it is pumping way more than 300 gal/min. Is this possible for a pump to pump more water than it is rated at? We have several irrigation wells around here that we irrigate crops with and they will pump about 800 gal/min through a 6" pipe. About how many gal/min will a 6" pipe supply? It has downward slope into the pond from where it is being pumped.
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