Jun 29, 2015 · I'd like to install a duck pond for 5-6 ducks. Here's my criteria: 1. Low maintenance/low cost 2. Circulating 3. Seasonal (will close down in winter) 4. Filtered (biofilter + skippy filter) 5. External pump What I'd like to do is basically make …

Jul 18, 2014 · I have a small pond (350 gallons) with 4 ducks. I would like a small waterfall which will be about 2' -3' from the surface of the water I was thinking of the following arrangement: Pump Info: 1. Pump = Sequence Primer (6400 gph) external pump: this pump has rather large 2" and 2.5" inlet outlet diameters which I would think would be good for pumping duck muck 2. Inlet …

Jul 21, 2023 · Providing a pond for your ducks is great for a lot of reasons, but does that mean a huge water use dumping water everyday or can they be filtered? My journey to have a pretty duck pond that my ducks and I can enjoy without it being a big mess...

Mar 19, 2008 · The pond water will get just as nasty as the kiddie pool water; it will just take proportionately longer. But, when you get up to about 500 or 1,000 gallons per duck you will start to notice some relief from the microbial digestion of waste.

May 24, 2016 · Problems: Will the pump be strong enough to push unfiltered water uphill to the filtration system? depends on the size of the pump. With pumps, always go bigger! Will I need to put the filtration system near the pump, and buy another pump to push the clean water uphill to the waterfall? Where do you plan to set up the filtration? My pond is 10x7 and 18" deep. I have …

Apr 27, 2007 · The pump is more powerful than I need for the size of pond, but again, I thought it better to get that to cope with any extra duck sludge. You can work out what size/wattage pump you need by working out the volume of water and the "head height", which is roughly the distance horizontally and vertically that it needs to pump to.

Oct 1, 2018 · Basically they have pumps that pump the water from the pond into the bog filter which then waterfalls back into the pond, but if you do that in a duck pond the pump would just get clogged to heck and back with poo! I've even looked for duck pond specific bog filters and it always seems to gloss over the issue of the sediment...

Mar 28, 2014 · Living in Arizona and the mosquitoes are finally a big nuisance here. Recently they have started to infest my small duck pond which is an issue because my son loves to feed and pet the duck on a daily basis. I have tried small fish, but my duck just likes to eat all of the fish within a …

Apr 10, 2018 · Hello, I finally finished my duck pen and the girls have been out there for about a week now, I have been using a small kiddie pool that I dump and refill every morning. I purchased a preformed pond that I attached a drain to and will …

Mar 12, 2018 · I already have a pond and the start of a filtration unit I never finished building. My pond was not originally built for ducks, but for koi and goldfish. A few years after building I had the idea to add ducks to our backyard flock with the pond area as …