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Adding Style to Your Pond with Pumps and Foggers

Pond pumps and pond foggers are a useful addition to your pond as they are both decorative and functional. Pond foggers basically mist your pond by vaporizing the water and make your pond lighting look more attractive. They are also called pond misters. They are especially charming in the summer season when you spend a lot of time outdoors enjoying barbecue grilling over the weekend

The kind of pond fogger you use depends on the characteristics of your pond. Foggers work best with shallow ponds because that is when more fog can be generated. If you have installed low voltage lighting around your pond, then pond foggers really give it a beautiful and ethereal ambience. So do not be surprised if you find yourself heading there each time you want to relax.

You can use pond foggers safely even if you have a fishpond since foggers keep your pond cool, particular late in the day and at night or on rainy days. Pond foggers run on electricity and come with a transformer and power cord. They float on the surface of your pond at the appropriate depth when used with a fogger float. The pond fogger head must be submerged below the surface of the pond in order for it to generate the fog. It is best to get those that work with ultrasonic waves rather than chemicals.

Spotlights make your pond even more attractive when you focus them on the mist above them. You get pond foggers that have color changing LED lights that look great. This creates the right atmosphere when you have guests over for an evening cook out or barbecue party.

Pond pumps help keep the algae out of your pond and keep it clean. Especially if you have Koi carp fish in your pond, you will need a Koi pond pump but make sure the water is kept as clear as possible. This can be achieved with a generously sized Koi pond pump so that you can keep the pond healthy and clean for your fish as well as your pond plant life.

It is important choose the right pond pump to keep the water circulating so that your pond is well aerated. You can filter your pond in various ways but while some methods remove particles they do not kill harmful algae and others, while killing algae, end up harming pond life. It has been found that the best method to filter and aerate is through UV that can also get rid of disease causing substances.

Pond pumps can be a waterfall or submersible pond pumps and you can select either one depending on your budget. A waterfall certainly sounds soothing. Size matters with a pond pump, and you will need to get the right size for you pond depending on its size. Pumps are measured according to their pumping capacity in gallons per hour or minute. So you would need a pump that can pump half the ponds volume per hour. There are floating pond pumps low voltage that can be used with the submersible pumps.

For ponds where a waterfall feature is already present, you might want to have separate pumps for the waterfall and filter, particularly if it is a high waterfall. For very large ponds, gas powered pumps make sense. In terms of energy savings solar pond pumps are ideal.

Sunterra 104506 Table Top Fountain Pump 30 GPH, Black

Beckett 325 gal. Pond Pump for Medium Ponds

Beckett 210 gal. Pond Pump for Small Ponds

Sunterra 200850 Pond Pump, 850 GPH, Black

Sunterra 137016 Extra Large Fountain Pump, 320 GPH, Black

Pondmaster 02217 700 GPH Pond Pump with Filter and Fountain Set

Superior Pump 1/4 HP Cast Iron Submersible Utility Pump with 25-Foot Cord #91257

Sunterra 300409 Mistmaker Fogger For Ponds and Water gardening, Silver and Black

Sunterra 120016 Large Fountain Pump, 200 GPH, Black

Sunterra 202000 Pond Pump 2000 GPH, Black

Sunterra 204000 Pond Pump, 4300 GPH, Black

Sunterra 114516 Medium Fountain Pump, 130 GPH, Black