Using Floating Pond Fountains

Floating fountains have a pump close to the surface and a spray head at the surface level of the water this disperses water in various attractive patterns into the air.

If the main reason that you are adding a fountain to your pond is to aerate the water for fish or for the prevention of alga growth, then a surface aerator or a bottom-based aerator is your solution. On the other hand, if your desire is to create a beautiful water display, which will also aerate, then a floating fountain
model, may be the solution. Floating fountains have a pump close to the surface and a spray head at the surface level of the water this disperses water in various attractive patterns into the air.

The floating fountain has to be held secure in place. This can be done by securing it with shoreline ropes or an anchor. Shoreline ropes are more convenient to use and able you to pull the unit to shore when ever it requires maintenance. Unfortunately, anyone else can also accomplish this, making your fountain valuable to vandalism or theft.

Anchoring a Floating Fountain:

By dropping an anchor beneath the unit in the water, it will hold the fountain in place and reduce the risk of your fountain falling to vandalism and reliably secures your fountain in place. However, the main disadvantage is that if your fountain is in a pond more than a couple of feet deep, then in order to get to it and clean the fountain or change a lamp, you'll have to use a boat to get to your fountain. This also means that you'll have to have a place where you can secretly store your boat, so that no one else can get out to your fountain.

With a floating fountain, you must have a ground fault interrupting circuit breaker, or GFCI on the pump and lighting circuits. Many cheap fountains do not include a GFCI. If the floating fountain you have purchase does not include the GFCI, then you will have to purchase this equipment yourself. Separately, it will coast you about the same as a floating fountain, which has it already in place. The GFCI protection needs to be placed close to the shore to reduce the cable length that has to be run underwater. This reduces the chance that it will create problems.

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