20,000gph for 1.5 Amps at 115volts. to make a long story bearably short.
Everyone knows I'm poor and in a richman's hobby. I figured I could Dig better tham a richman. And I got friends that can lift cement blocks and mud them in place.
So I dug for three years (why hurry?) and then poured the bottom (with eight four inch bottom drains)...and then it hit me.
I couldn't afford the electricity to move the 40,000 gallons every hr or so.
I did some serious net surfing and found axial pumps, but they were all to big and made for sewage or locks.....but the numbers looked great concerning watts/gallons moved.
Axial pumps are not centrifugal pumps. They are propeller pumps. I found some small ones being produced for pond aeration. I've inquired of several makers as to how I would have to modify them so I could use them for moving the water through my filtration bays. Some said that it would not be easy....but I found Mike at Power House Aerators. He was one of the guys that gets to play with them. After we talked about aerators for awhile and how I could change my filtration bays, I asked him if I could take the float off the propeller pump and just point it through the wall separating the pond and filter bay without it ruining the pump by it being placed on its side.
Mike said I should just get an "ice eater". Which is the same motor housed in cylinder that pushes water from the warmer bottom to the surface of a lake, usually so a boat slip will stay ice free.
These ice eaters are now being used by oystermen to keep water flowing over their oyster farms.
I'm amazed these pumps aren't part of the main kit used to keep koi.
I bought one today to play with before I figure how I am going to re-configure the chamber it must go in.
They make one that pushes 60,000gph for 4.7 Amps at 115volts...... I figure koi hobbyists would make them a part of the pond. Turn them on for a couple of hrs a day.....increase the oxygen, blow any crap on the bottom into the filter, and force those lazy-ass koi to become Stronger(looking).
Imagine one very big soft flowing toilet!
But for me....an affordable way to move a huge amount of water! Yippee.
"Experience" is what you have left when the koi die.
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