| The Steele's Ponds Page 4 2003 |
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| This year we got a Sacramento Koi 15 bead filter to increase the filtration on the 4000 gallon pond. We replaced a 40 watt homemade uv with an 80 watt and added our 2nd Sequence Pump. The slippery slope of transition from water garden to koi pond was getting steeper. Many or the plants that we were so proud of in the past were going to make room for more and better koi. |
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| This is the 2200 gallon pond. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The 4000 gallon pond in July | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The tropical lilies George T. Moore and Red Flare. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Some of the babies and the tropical lilies in the 4000 gallon pond. Note the taro has jumped the pots and is growing wild in the bank. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I created my own version of pond vacuum and was asked about specifics on it construction. Pond Vacuum uses 1800 GPH Supreme Mag Drive pump, in line leaf trap (AquaticEco PN LT1, and pool vacuum hose, rigid tube, with or without nozzle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connection to my pump requires 3/4 inch male adapter to thread into the pump, and 1 1/4 inch slip connector for hose. The other pieces in the middle are just to get from one to the other out of my scrap box. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Richard Steele | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Central Virginia Watergarden Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||