A pump question from a newbie

13 years ago

Hello,
I'm hoping to setup my first pond this spring. It will be small. I bought a 200 gallon pond kit and a waterfall kit. The waterfall kit came with a smaller 5x5 liner so I want to build a smaller pond with that and have it flow in to the larger 200 gallon pond. Now both kits each come with 400 gallon pumps. Do I need to run both of these pumps or will one be ok? I don't think I'll put any fish in it, if I do it will only be a couple because I'm sure something will eat them out where I live. I mainly want to add plants.

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kalevi
13 years ago
You don't say where you live. How do you plan to control mosquitoes? Even 1 400gph pump should be ok for you. What model number and brand are they?
hvpooly
Original Author
13 years ago
I'm in Northeast Pennsylvania. It doesn't state what brand or number for the pumps. I haven't received them yet, I ordered them a few days ago. It's the TotalPond starter kit and a Beckett waterfall kit. I was hoping to add 2-3 feeder goldfish or some minnows for mosquitoes but if my pond wasn't big enough for that I would use mosquito dunks.
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shakaho
13 years ago
Your pond is plenty big enough for 2 or 3 goldfish. They'll take care of the mosquitoes.
chas045
13 years ago
You don't Need both, but you can run the second one anyway. For example, you could create the appearance of a side stream entering the pond. You might enjoy looking at cliffandjoann's posts. There is a specific post about using cheap harbor freight pumps for that purpose. Otherwise they would be for aspiration but the secondary pumps look real nice.