TPR's, SQUARE shape pond.
the goal of below info and diagrams. is give idea of were to place tprs and what they can do to help keep the pond itself clean of muck and debrie, and fish poo, and etc...
everyone pond is different, and because of that, i ask that you apply the info. just don't take it on blind thought.
- no drains, no TPR's, all the debris just collects in bottom of the pond
- simple a bottom drain. with a pond size bigger than what the bottom drain can suck into it.
- air diffuser on top of the bottom drain.
- single TPR. note it throughs symetry of the water currents in the pond way off
- 2 TPR's symtrey is not completely achived. 2 corners have more debrie build up than other 2 corners.
- 4 TPR's symtry is achived
- 1 tpr, coming out the side of pond with a 90 inside the pond.
- this can be a bad thing. with stuff sticking into pond. mainly due to fish can bumb into it and harm themselves. if you have ever witness fish spawning, you would truely understand how much the males shove the female around. (( think a bunch of 5 year old kids that were all given lots and lots of surgar and caffine ))
- 2 tprs, coming out pond side with a 90's inside pond. symetry not completey achived.
- 4 tprs, coming out pond side with a 90's inside pond. symetry achived
- TPR's pointed directly at drain. aka no debrie is removed from pond.
square ponds or rather trap crap corner ponds. are abit of a pain to deal with. mainly due to the corners will love to collect debrie and muck. its just something of matter of life when dealing with sharp corners.
- the thought behind diagrams 4 - 6, is to show a safe way to add tprs to a pond, and keep fish from banging into them.
- the thought behind diagrams 7 - 9, is to show a way of point tprs into corners to clean them out.
- sadly, they require plumbing inside the pond. my personal preference is i don't like to see plumbing inside a pond. than and fish can harm themselves on stuff inside a pond.
- the postioning of tprs is not a great use of tprs. granted they may clean the corner, but you loose alot of effective-ness for the rest of the pond bottom in keeping it clean of debriee and muck.