I don't know that I need aeration...at least not yet. I am interested in solar power...and playing with it sounds like fun.
My pond is about 10-12 ft deep lately. My thought was to put a floating fountain in with a down tube on it. Have that tube about 8 ft long with the bottom capped and holes about 1-2 ft from the bottom. Bottom capped to not suck up muck if my water gets low. The down tube to circulate water.
With aquariums, circulating water is what I was told gets oxygen into the water (not the air bubbles flowing through it). That is why I thought sucking it from near the bottom and spraying up top would work. This is kind of what a bottom filter in an aquarium does.
Reading about ponds getting super cooled due to aeration in winter worries me...because of our hot summers (we had 100 days of 100+ temps one year). So I worry about heating the water in summer. Probably something I don't understand.
With our droughts, I worry about aeration increasing evaporation. With our dry, windy, hot, conditions, I can lose a couple inches of water from my pool in a week. Add the water seeping into the ground in the pond to that evaporation...and in theory, it will drop faster.
Friends kid me about putting a waterfall in...again, if I did, I would pull water from near the bottom.
I know NOTHING about ponds...just trying to apply what I was told about aquariums to ponds.
Feedback?
Sorry if I hijacked the thread.
Sean
Last edited by Boburk; 07/11/15 11:24 AM.
