"Gareee©" wrote in message
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I've been using the "milk crate" type filter around the pump in the pond,
but it seems to be getting clogged to the point o restricting water flow
in just a week with the new higher pgh pump.

Anyone come out with some kind of "cage" to put around the pump, to keep
critters like salamanders out, but not have the furnace filter stuff
around it that clogs that fast?

Pond plant baskets look about right, but are too small. for the pump.

What if you wrap a milk crate with sunscreen mesh. Something like this
stuff.
http://www.solarshadingsys.com/sss01...s/prod20.shtml

They sell it in the garden section of your local home depot/lowes. The idea
being to wrap 1 layer of it around the crate, just to keep the amphbians out
of the milk crate. Don't cram the entire milk crate full of it.

See if that works.