The Duck-ponics Experiment - Raising minnows

[jellybean]

Pump's been going for about a week now? And it's great. Once it turned off for some reason. I could hear it running but not pumping. It's sposed to have a safety of some sort, to shut off when the float says the water is too low. So I wiggled the float and it started pumping again. Otherwise it's been fine. No clogging or slowing down so far.... Fingers crossed it will hold up! For the price I'd be happy if it just lasted a couple years!

 

[treldib]

How are the Rosies compared to Goldfish? Do they eat the duckweed? Better or worse at eating mosquito larvae than goldfish are?

 

[treldib]

What are the dimensions of the pond? 8' x 10'?

 

[Wifezilla]

I will have to measure it for you. I will post that tomorrow.

As for the rosy question, they seem to do about the same job but make less of a mess. Plus they are faster than gold fish so if the ducks do get out of their run and raid the pond, I still have fish left after I shoo them back where they belong

 

[treldib]

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Thank you

 

[theRazorBlade]

I have a 700 gallon pond with 10 ducks and after a few broken pumps, switched to Laguna Max Flo and so far (after 2 months) having great success with it. It clogs from feathers after about a month and needs to be cleaned (which is simple and takes a few minutes). I highly recommend it for duck ponds:

http://www.lagunaponds.com/lagunaeng/maxflopumps/maxflo.php?link=141

 

[tdgill]

I have a Hayward pool filter and pump from my folks 30,000 gallon inground. It uses DE. No chance this would work for a pond is there?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Wifezilla, I enjoyed my visit to your farm. the pictures are beautiful so healthy looking wish I lived close woud like to see in person.

 

[treldib]

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Which model Max Flo is it? We too have a 700 gal. pond and have the Laguna Max Flo 1500 gph

Works great...

 

[goosedragon]

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the pump should work with some type of strainer to keep large poop and feathers out of the pump. The filter will probably fail because of the heavy load of solids ducks ALWAYS add to the water. You could try backfushing often and hope for the best I suppose.