Bad pump or filters?

We have a pondmaster pump/filtration system. I believe this is what we have
can't remember http://www.pondliner.com/PMK1500.htm. We use it only in the
winter, we run our 14ft. waterfall and larger filter during the summer. Last
winter was our first winter using the pump. It would run a month or longer
before the filter pads needed cleaning. We would pull the pump out for
cleaning when the fountian spray dropped down to the ponds water level. This
year the fountain spray drops within hours of cleaning the filter pads! So
we got new filter pads. Our fountain spray was high like it should be with
the new pads for about 3 days than it dropped like a rock. We pulled the
pump/filter out to clean the pads today about 3 hours ago and already the
fountain spray is almost down to the pond surface.
Are we dealing with a pump going bad? If it is going bad why did the
fountain spray stay high for 3 days (after getting the new pads) before
losing it's strength? My thinking is if the pump was going bad than the
fountain spray would not have stayed up and would have dropped within hours
just like before the new pads.
Any ideas?

"99windstar" wrote in message
news:Hvsif.749$to5.301@trnddc04...
We have a pondmaster pump/filtration system. I believe this is what we
have can't remember http://www.pondliner.com/PMK1500.htm. We use it only
in the winter, we run our 14ft. waterfall and larger filter during the
summer.
====================
These are absolutely worthless filters in my opinion if you have fish and
plants in your pond. I have one and don't use it. The pump is not the
problem, it's the filter - it clogs rapidly. Even using a coarse pad I had
to clean it once a week or more. It's not worth the trouble.
--
Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

What do you suggest we replace it with? We used the pump/filter last winter
and would go easily a month before we had to clean the filters. Our 2 koi
were smaller than, we also have 4 gold fish. No plants tho' but do have
trees that drop their leaves in the pond. We try to scoop out what we can.

"Koi-lo" wrote in message
...

"99windstar" wrote in message
news:Hvsif.749$to5.301@trnddc04...
We have a pondmaster pump/filtration system. I believe this is what we
have can't remember http://www.pondliner.com/PMK1500.htm. We use it only
in the winter, we run our 14ft. waterfall and larger filter during the
summer.
====================
These are absolutely worthless filters in my opinion if you have fish and
plants in your pond. I have one and don't use it. The pump is not the
problem, it's the filter - it clogs rapidly. Even using a coarse pad I
had to clean it once a week or more. It's not worth the trouble.
--
Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

If this is just for winter mode you might want to put the pump either clam
shelled similar to: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/koipond/photos/set1/09.jpg
or in the filter without the pads, as long as there is screening to block
anything big from entering. The idea is to allow lots of surface area for
only small particles to pass thru, yet bigger particular can not clog the
entire surface at one time.

Next year you might want to seriously consider netting or screening the
pond:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/koipond/photos/003.jpg ~ jan

----------------
See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Defrosted~
Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website

Koi-lo wrote:

"99windstar" wrote in message
news:Hvsif.749$to5.301@trnddc04...

====================
These are absolutely worthless filters in my opinion if you have fish
and plants in your pond. I have one and don't use it. The pump is not
the problem, it's the filter - it clogs rapidly. Even using a coarse
pad I had to clean it once a week or more. It's not worth the trouble.

Carolyn Adamo Gulley
3245 North Lamar Road Mount Juliet TN 37122-7806
Phone 615-459-9345

has been caught in various vicious lies!
Before plaguing ARJW with her nonsense, she use to plague the Health NG
do a google search on Yarrow / windsong / Carol for more details.

http://tinyurl.com/daw64
http://tinyurl.com/af4r9
http://tinyurl.com/7v5ly
When she is best by a man she accuse him of stalking

http://tinyurl.com/8wryt

She engages people in senseless debates about absolutely nothing.
Her intent on ARJW is to slander JW's

Before you reply, you may want to ask her a few things or only one.
_Where does she get her information?
_Can her information be verified?
_Is the information up to date?
_What is the purpose of her post? To present reliable facts about JW's
or sling mud on a religious organization in good standing in almost
every country in the world?

Ask her for evidence of her claims before proceeding with your
conversation with her, if not you may be end up wasting your time and
bandwidth on discussing subjects based on fraudulent and fabricated
information. This is how she manipulates clueless bystanders in
participating with her distributing false information elsewhere?

Facts about Carol:

*She can never present evidence.
*She never reveals the source of her info (because there is none). Her
common reply, is: "everybody already knows". If everybody knew, why
bring it up?
*She always hides her identity. And change her header to avoid
killfiles. A TOS offense
*She cuts and paste, rewrite postings, and will even forge e-mail
addresses
;which her ISP allows her to do. Just ask them:


If your newsgroups has been victim of Carol's MCP and ECP that is off
topic you can report her. Her account is dpc6682112001.direcpc.com and
you may report her by calling 1-800-DirecPC, by emailing us at
, or by writing to:

DirecPC
Customer Care Center
11717 Exploration Lane
Germantown, MD 20876 USA

Her use of remailers can still be traced to her account.No American ISP
like to be
associated with Hate Speech no matter if Hate speech is protected
under the First. It affects their commercial interest.
Then you can contact your own ISP and have them add them to their
block List Direcpc.com

Why does Carol behave as she does?


Carolyn Adamo Gulley of Mt Juliet Tn. Is a life long underachiever.
She did not finish High school in NYC, and lived as a biker gangsters
in the 60's and 70's. She claims on her former website that she has 2
failed
marriages and blames God for her poor choices. It is alleged that she
lost custody of her only son due to substance abuse, (never been
proven however). Dumped in TN by her Second husband, Quote-quote, with
no place to go.


She also has failed attempts at being a JW. She could never attain their
moral standards as dictated in the scriptures, and thus been at
war with them ever since. This has made her a very mentally unstable
woman, her hatred is intense, and due to biker-substance abuse
lifestyle, she now needs aid of a pacemaker.

By reporting her to her ISP, she is made aware, that she is alone in
her insane crusade full of false hoods and forgeries., and that you
the reader does not support hate speech against any religion or person.

Koi-lo wrote:

"99windstar" wrote in message
news:6_wif.9$TI4.8@trnddc02...

What do you suggest we replace it with? We used the pump/filter last
winter and would go easily a month before we had to clean the filters.
Our 2 koi were smaller than, we also have 4 gold fish. No plants tho'
but do have trees that drop their leaves in the pond. We try to scoop
out what we can.

=====================
I replaced it with an out-of-pond Tetra filter that looks like a dark
green barrel. It has bio-blocks in the bottom and a filter pad over
them. It works fine. But now we make our own out of old fiberglass
ammunition cases someone gave us. I buy the filter material at a
Aquarium-Pond store and in the bottom use whatever I have on hand,
mainly broken and small flowerpots and lavarock. Cost? About $10 for
the sack of lava rocks and filter material. Any large tote would work
including those heavy plastic ones sold at Wal*Mart and other such stores.

Carolyn Adamo Gulley
3245 North Lamar Road Mount Juliet TN 37122-7806
Phone 615-459-9345

has been caught in various vicious lies!
Before plaguing ARJW with her nonsense, she use to plague the Health NG
do a google search on Yarrow / windsong / Carol for more details.

http://tinyurl.com/daw64
http://tinyurl.com/af4r9
http://tinyurl.com/7v5ly
When she is best by a man she accuse him of stalking

http://tinyurl.com/8wryt

She engages people in senseless debates about absolutely nothing.
Her intent on ARJW is to slander JW's

Before you reply, you may want to ask her a few things or only one.
_Where does she get her information?
_Can her information be verified?
_Is the information up to date?
_What is the purpose of her post? To present reliable facts about JW's
or sling mud on a religious organization in good standing in almost
every country in the world?

Ask her for evidence of her claims before proceeding with your
conversation with her, if not you may be end up wasting your time and
bandwidth on discussing subjects based on fraudulent and fabricated
information. This is how she manipulates clueless bystanders in
participating with her distributing false information elsewhere?

Facts about Carol:

*She can never present evidence.
*She never reveals the source of her info (because there is none). Her
common reply, is: "everybody already knows". If everybody knew, why
bring it up?
*She always hides her identity. And change her header to avoid
killfiles. A TOS offense
*She cuts and paste, rewrite postings, and will even forge e-mail
addresses
;which her ISP allows her to do. Just ask them:


If your newsgroups has been victim of Carol's MCP and ECP that is off
topic you can report her. Her account is dpc6682112001.direcpc.com and
you may report her by calling 1-800-DirecPC, by emailing us at
, or by writing to:

DirecPC
Customer Care Center
11717 Exploration Lane
Germantown, MD 20876 USA

Her use of remailers can still be traced to her account.No American ISP
like to be
associated with Hate Speech no matter if Hate speech is protected
under the First. It affects their commercial interest.
Then you can contact your own ISP and have them add them to their
block List Direcpc.com

Why does Carol behave as she does?


Carolyn Adamo Gulley of Mt Juliet Tn. Is a life long underachiever.
She did not finish High school in NYC, and lived as a biker gangsters
in the 60's and 70's. She claims on her former website that she has 2
failed
marriages and blames God for her poor choices. It is alleged that she
lost custody of her only son due to substance abuse, (never been
proven however). Dumped in TN by her Second husband, Quote-quote, with
no place to go.


She also has failed attempts at being a JW. She could never attain their
moral standards as dictated in the scriptures, and thus been at
war with them ever since. This has made her a very mentally unstable
woman, her hatred is intense, and due to biker-substance abuse
lifestyle, she now needs aid of a pacemaker.

By reporting her to her ISP, she is made aware, that she is alone in
her insane crusade full of false hoods and forgeries., and that you
the reader does not support hate speech against any religion or person.

We are trying to figure out why all last winter this pump/filter set up
worked perfectly. We would
go weeks without having to clean the filters. When it was time to clean we
would lift the filter out
and there would be at least 1/4 inch of muck sitting on top. So it wasn't
any wonder why the fountian
spray wasn't high. This year with new filter pads (twice) the longest we've
gone is a week but average time
a few hours before the fountain spray gets lower (once the spray gets lower
the pump usually turns over).
When we pull the filter out the filter pads are hardly dirty, no muck, no
leaves, nothing just a little browned because
after all it was sitting in the pond. I am not convinced that the filter is
the problem yet but not sure how to troubleshoot
the problem.
We like to have this pump running during the winter for a couple of reasons.
One our pond is visable thru' our big
picture window so it is nice to look at during the winter. The second is
spring start up is so much easier when the pond
is already clean/clear of muck and junk. Our first winter with this pond we
didn't have a pump/filter, the pond looked disgusting
during the winter and spring start up was a nightmare.


"~ jan jjspond" wrote in message
...
If this is just for winter mode you might want to put the pump either clam
shelled similar to:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/koipond/photos/set1/09.jpg
or in the filter without the pads, as long as there is screening to block
anything big from entering. The idea is to allow lots of surface area for
only small particles to pass thru, yet bigger particular can not clog the
entire surface at one time.

Next year you might want to seriously consider netting or screening the
pond:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/koipond/photos/003.jpg ~ jan

----------------
See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Defrosted~
Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:40:41 GMT, "99windstar"
wrote:

We are trying to figure out why all last winter this pump/filter set up
worked perfectly. We would go weeks without having to clean the filters.

Could there be something plugging up the connection from pump to fountain?
Have you cleaned the tube(s) lately? ~ jan


~ jan/WA
Zone 7a