Yes you can remove the pump but there are many things you need to think about. Mosquitos breed in stagnant water. The fish and frogs and newts are needed to help cull the mosquito population. Does your pond now have a liner ? You would be best served to remove the liner and turn your pond into a rain garden ( see links below ). If your pond is shallow then possibly by your description of what you desire, you could leave the liner and add lots of dirt to basically fill in the liner and plant as you desire. You should not leave areas of standing water, areas that stay continually wet are just fine.I hope this helps and good luck to you on your new marsh.
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http://www.dof.virginia.gov/rfb/rain-gar…
http://www.raingardennetwork.com/
1 year ago
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It would be fine to have a natural pond with no pump. You would need to keep the water for the frogs and newts, and also there would be no need to remove or feed the fish, as they would eat the natural food available, such as mosquito larvae, and would keep their own numbers in check. We have had a pond in our garden for over 30 years with thriving fish, frogs newts, damselflies, dragonflies etc, also waterlilies and other deep-water plants as well as marginals. Yes it does get a bit greener than it would if pumped and filtered, but it's a nice green which sort of goes with the garden, and it doesn't affect the fish and other wildlife, attracts lots of birds too. I'd say just remove the pump and see what happens. One more thing - fill it with rainwater as far as possible. I've run hoses from our 5 waterbutts along the back of the flowerbeds which enable me to drain rainwater from our roof into the pond, and this improves the water quality as we live in a hard water area and also of course the rainwater has no chemicals in it.
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