We are using a 5 gal bucket with Loads of 1/2 inch holes ...like all we
could put in it. The flow rate is slow enough that nothing seems to get
stuck on it. The top has egg crate light grid to permit flow there as well.
We don't ever have to clean it. It sits at the bottom of a 7 foot well on
bricks to keep it off the bottom.

Jim

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"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.

Ideas?

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Gareee©
(Gary Tabar Jr.)