Should I fill pond with well water?
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catfishhoward
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Filled my pond with surface water, how can I filter and clean it
Comments (2)Your pond sounds about 1500-2000 gallons. One way to figure out true capacity is measure how long your tap+ hose takes to fill a 3 or 5 gallon bucket and then how long it takes to fill the pond. You should be able to do the math. Best thing to do is pump out this water, clean the remaining silt out, set up a submersible pump in a prefilter going to a skippy or other biofilter that feeds a waterfall. Refill, get filter going, buy some waterlilies and some other plants good for your climate, pot them and place into pond. After about a week, put in some cheap goldfish. If after a year, you have kept them alive and have discovered if local predators (birds, coons, ...) don't snack on them, you can go for more expensive goldfish. Your pond is too small for koi. You can get a submersible pump that also has a fountain attachment or a separate fountain pump. My pond (1500 gallons) is pretty low maintenance and is set up the way I describe above with goldfish and rosy reds, waterlilies, and several types of marginals + parrot's feather....See MoreUsing well water. Should I bypass softener or not?
Comments (3)I would say it depends on the particular softener and how drastic your water is in the first place. I don't really like softened water personally so I shut mine off. Besides that, some softeners seem to add more sodium to the water than others. I found that my well water, being hard, made it difficult to keep the pH low enough for my hydro cucumbers. If I used rain water in the hydro system, the pH was much easier to control. You could try either way and see how it goes. The well water will be more likely to leave calcium deposites on the equipment. The pre-mixed nutrient products usually have most of what they need so unless you have one formulated for hard water, you probably don't need the added calcium from the well. Now that I'm into Aquaponics, the hard water is actually a good thing. Here is a link that might be useful: My hydro page...See Morehelp ! first fill and dirty well water ? please plese please help
Comments (8)tilleys26, Jack's magic will work well to keep the iron in solution. I would suggest that you use a filter aid in your sand filter. This will help the filter hold the fine particles that it is unable to catch. Don't worry about the chlorine until you get the water cleared up. Sand filters work fine once the water is clear. DE filters work much more quickly to clear the water. Go to a pool store and ask about a filter aid to add to your sand filter. Be patient and continue to filter 20+ hours a day until it is clear. Water trucks generally have iron tanks. You may have traded one iron source for another. As the water starts to clear you can start raising the alkalinity and calcium hardness. Good luck....See MoreFilling an above ground pool with well water?
Comments (1)Late reply, but take a 5 gallon bucket and time how long it takes to fill from the same length of hose that you'll use to fill your pool. You can repeat it a couple of times to get an average time. Example, 5 gallons in one minute = 300 gallons per hour. Actual flow out of the hose over a long period of time could vary, but it'll get you a rough idea....See Morecatfishhoward
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