| Hi Brady,
Just saw your posting. Of course up here we have to protect things from freezing so I don't think we could get away with the p-tank exposed like that.
I would also recommend to anyone reading that if you plan on having a well and keeping koi - go deep and over compensate. I had a fit when I came home and found that the well driller stopped at 9 gpm with the depth only being 115 ft. This was before we had a pond but we had also just had to redrill the well at our old house in order to sell the place(drought that year). His words were you'll have plenty of water and never run out. 12 years later we were digging a new well. At least if you go deeper you have more of a reservoir in the pipe. It is almost as cosly to set over a well as to build a new one to make it deeper so we went with a whole new well this time. We still didn't get one of those underground lake hits but at least I can do a water change now and not have to stand by to watch when it pumps dry to I can cut the pump off so it won't burn up - NOT FUN. Much better now
Ruth 8) |