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There are a few different types of water well and so some of the water well drilling equipment necessary to produce them will vary too. However, one piece of apparatus that you will always need is a means of drawing the water out of the well and this can vary from a bucket on a rope to a modern solar powered water pump.

Some types of well are dug out by hand with shovels as they were for thousands of years and others are drilled out with powerful, large rotary drills as are used in the oil industry. Here follows the main types of water well:

A water well that is called a ‘dug well’ is precisely that: a well that has been dug by hand with a pick and shovel. It is the same type of water well that existed in Biblical times and before and the equipment used to create it has not altered either. The only change is the quality of the equipment – it has increased inestimably over the last 2,000 years.

These wells look like the wishing wells famous from farm houses and fairy stories with a bucket wound up and down on a rope by means of a winding-handle. They normally have a small roof to inhibit things from falling into the water also. These wells most often exist in warmer, poorer countries and they are often brought into the 21st Century by the addition of a solar powered water pump.

These water wells are often dressed in stone to stop dust and soil from falling into the water. It also cuts down on long term repairs, because you do not have to keep digging out the well to clear it of soil that has fallen into it.

A much smaller diameter well can be made by drilling. The water well drilling equipment needed is not complicated, but you will have to have a strong power source such as a generator, because you may need to drill through rock.

This method of drilling is similar to that used in the oil industry. A drill bit is attached to a pipe which is first hammered into the ground to give it a bite and then rotated like a drill.

You have to keep drilling by adding extra pipes until you strike water. Then the drill is extracted from the well and a water channel is inserted in its place. A solar pump can be added to this pipe to provide water.

A similar technique of drilling a well utilizes water well drilling equipment that is similar to that used for pile-driving. A point is hammered into the ground by a very heavy weight. Every time the weight falls, the bit rotates a little. It is slow and old-fashioned, but it has worked for hundreds of years and still does.

The drill bit has to be pulled out often to extract the debris. When water has been struck, the water well drilling equipment is pulled out and a pipe is fed down the hole. Once again a pump may be installed to bring up the water. A solar powered pump is the way that most people tend to go.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many topics, but is at present involved with water garden pumps. If you are interested in a Solar Powered Pond Pump, please go to our web site now for a special deal.

The fish in your backyard fish pond will be semi-dormant for the duration of the winter, that is to say that they will almost hibernate, but not quite. You will see your fish lying on the bottom of your pond hardly moving a muscle. They will be living off stores of fat that they have built up during the summer, but they may choose to eat every now and again, so you have to keep giving food, but in very reduced quantities.

There are a few things that you ought to do to ready your backyard fish pond for the winter, because this will help them survive the winter.

The first thing to do is tidy up your pond and the immediate area. Any dead foliage that finds its way into your pond will have months to rot down and ruin the quality of your pond water, just when your fish are at their most vulnerable.

Dredge your pond, aiming to take out at least half of the slush at the bottom, but try to leave any grubs, larvae and insects behind, because they are a good source of protein for your fish.

Scrape the sides of the pond of algae and get it out. You should also take out any plants that are unlikely to make it through the winter. Fix a leaf net over the pond in order to prevent tree leaves from blowing into the pond at a later time when the weather gets rough. If you expect flooding or heavy rain, sandbag the perimeter of the pond to a height of two feet to stop fish being swept away.

When the water temperature drops to 55-60F, reduce feeding to once per day and when it drops to 50F, stop giving food altogether. Even if the temperature rises above 50F for a day or two, do not feed until winter is over. This is because the fish may eat intuitively, but at this temperature food can take four days to digest and could kill your fish.

Clean your filtration system and remove your pumps and fountain from the water. Once you have retrieved your equipment you can scrub and maintain it at your leisure. You do not want it to freeze solid during a frost.

Stock up on your chemicals, medicines, water testing kits and foods now while you have plenty of time, because in essence, you are shutting your pond down for the winter.

Turn off all pieces of equipment that supply or recycle water to your pond. Make sure that they are unplugged and unable to be switched on accidentally. If water recyclers are switched on accidentally, it will disrupt the layers of cold and warmer water in the pond and could stress or even kill your fish.

Test and install your de-icer. It is very important to maintain a hole in any ice that forms, otherwise the gases and chemicals that result from rotting vegetation and fish excrement will build up and the water will not be able to take in oxygen. This is crucial or one day the ice will melt and your fish will all float to the top – dead.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is at present concerned with koi pond kits. If you are interested in a Solar Powered Pond Pump, please go to our web site now for a special deal.

The primary priority of any koi pond keeper, indeed of any fish pond keeper, it to preserve the pond water at a high level of hygiene. This basically means that you have to keep the nitrate and ammonia levels down. However, the fish will not help in this endeavour, and nor can they, since they live and defecate in their surroundings, the water. You could rightly say that the live in their own toilet bowl.

Therefore, it is up to you, as their benefactor, to keep their water as clean as possible. This is actually not so difficult and much or the decontamination process can be automated, leaving you, the owner, to only have to carry out routine, weekly tests.

The first check that you should carry out can be made on a daily basis if not more frequently, when you feed your fish, does the water look clear? Is it green? Are there lots of leaves floating around in it? If it is translucent enough to see the bottom of the pond, you are probably doing OK, but do not rely on that, wait for the weekly chemical check up.

Never forget that you have manufactured an unnatural environment for your fish to live in. It is nearer to nature that a fish tank, but it is a long way from being a river or a lake. This is why the bigger your pond is, the easier it will be to maintain, because the closer it will be to the real thing.

The smaller your pond, the more that you will have to depend on water filtration and aeration systems to keep the water crystal clear. One way of helping to maintain clear water is not to over feed. Most fish pond owners give far more fish food that the fish require.

This results in more faeces and more rotting food on the bottom of the pond. All this excess energy in the water is happily used up by algae, which will also draw the oxygen out of the water as it blooms. If you find yourself in this position, the first thing to do is reduce the amount of fish food and clean the sides of the pond of algae. If you do not, the shortage of oxygen will stress out your fish and stressed fish are more prone to disease.

Keep the water in your pond circulating as much as possible, as this will reintroduce oxygen into the water that the fish, algae and plants have used up. The standard methods of doing this are to have a fountain, a waterfall and an aerator (or bubbler, like you see in fish tanks).

Another way of dealing with oxygen and algae issues is to not overstock your fish pond. Koi will breed freely, so if you just start your population off with a few fish, you will soon have many more. They know when there are too many of them and they will eat the fry or control the breeding in other ways. If you do all you can to give your fish a good environment, they will do the rest.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is at present involved with fish pond accessories. If you are interested in a Solar Powered Pond Pump, please go to our web site now for some special deals.

Spring

Fish ponds, together with koi ponds, come awake in the spring after a winter of semi-hibernation. As soon as the temperature goes above 10C (50F), your fish become more lively and your plants will start growing again. This means that it is a great opportunity to do some upkeep – a spring clean – because you will not shock or stress your inactive fish. If you try it any earlier, you will upset your fish in their slumber and any later and you may disturb breeding.

You ought to take out any leaves that has fallen into the pond and dredge for some of the algae. Then clean your pond filter and turn your filtration system back on, if you switched it off for the winter. Test the water for any chemical imbalance and treat any problems.

You ought to also add a broad spectrum treatment for common fish ailments. Depending on the medication you use, you may have to repeat this procedure a week later or when the temperature increases above a certain degree.

Summer

This is when your pond is in full swing. Your aquatic plants will be flourishing as will the algae. You must keep the algae under control, which means trawling, netting and scraping. You will have to clean your pond filter more often as well. Check it daily and keep it working at full power. The cleaner you can keep your koi pond now, the less work you will have to do afterward.

Oxygenation of the water is a major priority in the summer, because warm water is able to hold less oxygen than cold water. Therefore, you will have to keep your fountain working and your bubbler bubbling, if you have one.

If you do not have one, consider buying one. You fish and the flourishing algae will be competing for the oxygen in the pond water. You can tell if the water is short of oxygen, because the fish will be gasping for air at the surface.

The warm water will not only awaken your fish and your plants, it will also bring parasites to life, so keep a beady eye on your fish’ health and treat anything suspicious straight away. Look out for fish rubbing against the sides or each other – scratching themselves, in other words.

Feed frequently. Your fish will have eaten very little in the winter and now they have to replenish their fat for breeding and next winter.

Autumn

Autumn is variable, but the first half may be like the summer and the second half more like winter. Continue to feed well. As the trees start to shed their leaves, you must eliminate them from your pond water.

Drag the leaves off at least once a day or sling a net over the pond and skim for leaves weekly. If you have any pond plants that will not survive the winter, either take them indoors or throw them away; you do not want them dying in your pond.

Winter

Life in your pond will slow down as winter progresses. You ought to feed less often, maybe only once a day until the temperature gets to 10C (50F) and then discontinue feeding – your fish will be in semi-hibernation at this juncture. Remove your filtration pumps and your fountain and switch all electrical gear off.

Put a pond heater in the water. This is a floating device that keeps a small surface area from freezing. If you permit all your pond to freeze over gases will build up, oxygen will disappear and your fish will die.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is at present concerned with the fish pond filter. If you are interested in a Solar Powered Pond Pump, please go to our web site now for a special deal.

Are you interested in having a backyard or garden fish pond or water garden? A fish pond certainly sets a garden off and becomes a focal and talking point for guests to your garden. However, never think that a backyard fish pond is a set-and-forget feature – you will always be concerned with aerating your backyard fish pond water.

Fish require an environment that reflects their natural habitat, say, a river. Rivers run into the sea and are regularly renewed by clean rainwater.

This natural process, coupled with the flow of the water over rocks and other obstacles keeps the fish’s environment beneficial to the fish. You cannot do the same, but you can emulate nature. If you fail to do this, your fish will become sick with diseases that a novice will not notice and die.

The main thing that fish require is clean, oxygenated water. So, how do you do that? Well, the first thing to understand is that pond fish do not need as much oxygenated water in the winter as in the summer, because fish are semi-dormant in the winter. However, warm water is not capable of holding as much oxygen as cold water, so you really need a good aeration system in the summer.

Therefore, you need to set up some sort of efficient fish pond water aeration system. This aeration system will be linked closely with your pond filtration device. The front line equipment for aerating your backyard fish pond water is the pond pump. In fact, you may even need two pond pumps.

Oxygen can be sucked out of your pond water by rotting vegetation and algae, so extricating these will help aerate your pond water. Therefore, you should use a general pond pump that will allow pond debris to pass through its impeller blades. The pump will send the water to your pond filter in order to remove it.

The water will then return to the pond. If you let it fall from step to step on its way back, the water will be polished and aerated when it arrives home in the pond. Another measure you can take is to set up a pond fountain.

However, you will probably need a different pump, because the filtration pump lets pond vegetation debris through, which would choke the jets of the pond fountain. The water from the fountain will oxygenate the pond when it falls back to the surface.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many topics, but is now involved with water garden pumps. If you are interested in a Solar Powered Pond Pump, please go to our web site now for a special deal.