Ponds and Water Gardens - Fountain Woes

I have a small three-tier leaf shape fountain that I bought some years ago that I would like to use again. It’s about 2’ at the highest point and 7” at the lowest, with about 3’ of tubing from the front to the back. For some reason I am having a problem keeping the water in the container below the bottom (largest) leaf where the pump is. I don’t recall it having a submersible pump. It seems to me it was a small dry type pump. At some point we had it hooked up with the pond so there was always plenty of water. I no longer have the pond.

I purchased a pump at Home Depot but talked to tech support at the company (Beckett) before hooking it up. They suggested their M250 4’ high with a 6.5 shut off. They could not tell me how much water the pump should be in.

The bottom leaf sits on a 7” base with a small opening to place the pump. The opening can hold a container
no higher than 7x 6 ½”.

The container does not fit snug to the bottom leaf because of the tubing. I have a piece of tubing from the bottom leaf into the container.

I tried a larger container outside the opening but still have the same problem, the water in the container pumps out faster than it fills up. I adjusted the flow to low but that didn’t seem to do anything.

I originally tried a (not cheap) solar pump and had the same problem.

Any help will be appreciated.

It seems that your pump is just pumping too much water. Could you try squeezing the tubing with a pair of pliers and see if that slows the flow enough to work better? If that works I have seen a clamping device for tubing in the water garden section of Menards-maybe that would work.
Good luck