Thanks for the thread Dave I appreciate your time and advice.I will have to do some more research and or just bite the bullet and install electric first(new air pump is here need to run 600 ft of air line)that will run both the air and the well.The well and the electric cost about the same.If I can just get through this summer with out a fish kill I should be good to go by next year.*****salth2ocowboy installs well,air and electric no drought for 50 years story at 11pm..ps MCbutterpants you have a nice pond strong back,and a cool thread sorry to have hijacked it.