Little Giant 1-Y Water Pump

It passes debris rather than screening it out. If your pond is skimmer-fed, stocked with fish, or collects leaves, you want one - a screened pump in that setting clogs between visits.

For a clean statuary feature or a self-contained urn, solids handling is unnecessary and a compact pump is the better fit.

A common working target is turning the volume over roughly once an hour on a stocked pond. Lightly stocked ornamental ponds tolerate less; heavily stocked koi ponds want more.

Waterfalls are sized differently - on flow per inch of spillway width rather than on pond volume. If you have both, size for whichever is the larger duty.

Generally not the right tool. The Little Giant utility and magnetic-drive units here are process and transfer pumps built for specific fluids and duty cycles, not continuous pond circulation.

If you are moving anything other than pond water, tell us what it is - seal and housing material compatibility matters and the wrong choice fails quickly.

Some do. The statuary and fountain kits arrive with a head ready to run. Most pond and waterfall pumps ship as the pump alone.

Check pump parts and accessories for fittings, or tell us your pipe size and we will include what you need.

It depends whether the feature runs through winter. A pump left in a pond that freezes solid around it will be damaged.

If you are shutting down, the pump comes out, gets cleaned and is stored somewhere above freezing. If you are running through, we will advise on what the setup needs - ask before freeze-up.