Comprehensive Listing of Articles By The Pond Professor

This is a website that covers many aspects of water gardening and pond keeping presented in short paragraph style with links to much more detailed and better presented information.

Follow the links to the right and explore or my recommendation is go to the latest water gardening and pond care website where everything is laid out much better and the information is logically arranged.

The articles will contain many references to pond filters, pond pumps and UV lights ... these are the 3 items of equipment that are really indispensable in fish ponds. One vital aspect of water gardening especially if fish ponds are involved and not just aquatic plants is the pump and often people have difficulty specifying the right one ...

To be able to specify the correct pond and waterfall pumps for your garden pond you must know how to:

• Calculate correct pond pump head. This depends upon waterfall characteristics mainly. If no waterfall exists pond volume and contents of the garden pond determine specifications for most pond pumps. Most waterfalls need about 50 to 70 galls per hour flow over a waterfall lip of about 1 inch to look good.
• Calculate correct pond pump flow rate. This is a function of the waterfall situation and other factors.
• Then specify to a retailer exactly what you want bearing in mind purchase and running costs of pond pumps selected. If you want a garden water feature pump decide more specifically upon your water feature before deciding upon the garden water feature pumps to select from.
• Recognize the pitfalls associated with certain types of so called pond pumps. Sump pumps and pool pumps are the main culprits here ... sump pumps generally stand upright with suction right at the base. Generally avoid these for ponds and waterfalls unless you know EXACTLY why you want to buy one.
• This site is designed to make pond pump selection easy for anyone.
• The cost of running a pump can vary a lot depending where you live .... refer to the cost of electricity by state in the table below for 2003. Running the same pump in New England states will cost about 50% more than running the same pump in one of the West North Central States
• Electricity costs by state in cents per kWatt-hour in 2003  … ref DOE
  U.S. Total 8.74 cents