Hard as a lot have tried to tellyou what is the right way and the
worng way your an idiot of the highest quality.......YOu do not have a
workingknowledge of how and what pumps do or how aeration is achied
and why....you conuter any fact with your ideology that is assinine
and won;t hold water.....

I think many of us, in our learning days could have had this said to or
about us, especially me. Until you get down and dirty, and see the affects
of what works in one's situation, it is hard to visualize what other
people, who know, are trying to teach. IOWs, and IMHO, give the guy a
break.

I know I started out with a Little Giant 1/2 hp at the bottom of the pond
hooked to a garden hose. I didn't know the reason I wasn't getting much
flow was due to the diameter & friction of the garden hose. Figured I just
needed a bigger pump. Then there was the constant clogging of the
unprotected pump and the hose, what a PITA!

I can't say if the internet would have helped me, or if I too would have
been stubborn (clueless) about things... especially when those changes
involved money. Quite honestly I don't think anyone in my koi club
mentioned the pump/hose problem, but common sense makes me wonder if I had
selective hearing at the time? I do know that I'd been going to meetings,
reading Koi USA & Water Gardening, and yet it took DH only one article to
design, and DS to build, a proper filtration system for my pond set up.
Why? Because they had the experience to make sense of it, that I
couldn't.... I think I even skipped over articles like that back then.

I do agree, in the long run, that a fountain or fountains with the pump
suspended directly underneath the float would be the way to go in a mud
pond. But who's to say that what the OP has in mind won't work to HIS
satisfaction. I say go for it, and I can't wait to see the pictures!!! )

Btw, pictures help the most when teaching, imo. Anyone got that website
where it showed a diagram of the pump suspended directly beneath the float?
~ jan

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