UPG hey whats up? Welcome to the PBF! Looks like your working hard that's for sure!
Your pond would not to do bad with my RC51 system I think. Like Bill says it is small enough and shallow enough to handle it. It's a great little budget system for guys just starting out! I ran my Eco7 pump for 4 years 10 hours a night before it started to not push very well in 8 feet or water at that point it still worked in 6 feet though. P.M me if you want some more info but I think most of it is already on this site.
So you would be fine at first I think, the reason I changed was this.
My pond can go from 6 or so feet to almost 10 feet depending on how much rain we get. In the end my Eco7 pump just was not cutting it, and after 4 years as you could imagine I was starting to get some pretty nice fish at that point! My biomass was a lot bigger and I was feeding my fish so to be safe I went to a stronger better pump. I now have a GAST 0523 1/3 hp pump which is awesome and is very strong and works at any depth I will have in my pond so I now have no worries with this new pump. Mr. Cody was kind enough to get me a few things I needed for the pump and it's been great! However I think it would be a bit of overkill for you at this point. Like Bill said consider all options look around, if you can get a 1/4 hp GAST or Thomas pump for 50 to 75 dollars more you may want to go that route, but the Eco7 will work in your situation that I have no doubt! I think you could get by with 1 or 2 fusers depending on how much water you want to move. They are not that expensive so I would go with 2 that way if 1 started to get clogged up or something you would still have good air coming out of the other one until you could get it fixed.
Hey Good Luck and keep us posted as to what you do.
RC
Last edited by RC51; 09/29/14 09:06 AM.
