Pond Boss Forums AERATION Systems questions Trying to Put Together an Aeration System

Got one of the two discs in this weekend. It was not as cold as I feared, and he water was just over my waist at the deepest point. But I underestimated how much air hose I needed. So I am waiting for Ted Lea to send me another 100'. Then I will set the second disc and be done. And then...let it rain!

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I will take some pics of my bench and post tomorrow. Also I used non weighted tubing and our local orange big box store has precut 18" pieces of 5/8 rebar. I bought several pieces of that and used zip ties to attach to the tubing in several places between my compressor and diffuser. I bought a vacuum pump off of ebay that was rebuilt, they usually have many on there for under 100 bucks. I got my tubing from that same orange big box store and im not sure of the price. My diffusers are 12" square stones that I ordered online for less than 25 bucks each. I have about $350 in my aeration system, not counting the wood to make the bench. My pond is .6 acres and 9' deep at the deepest part.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thomas-Pressure-...#ht_1664wt_1323

Nicely done, Tz! I am not as handy/creative as you are. So I went with one of Ted Lea's packages, and boy am I glad I did. He has been just fantastic.

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I was worried about the cold up here. We will have three weeks of -10c each year. To keep my lines from freezing we went with a rocker pump and 3/8th line to the air disks. We put the air pump down at the pond to keep the heat and we were running power down to run the waterfall too.

Moral of my story is if your line ends up freezing smaller line will help hold the heat but make sure your getting volume. Just like what Bill said the rocker pump has pressure and heat to spare, but the pump house needs cool clean air.

Cheers Don.