Victor M. Martinez wrote:
About Dakota wrote:

water gets too hot in the summer, and it's too cold in the winter. I
had two ponds, but now I have none. In summer, depending on the day,
the water could reach a temperature of 110, easily, with direct
sunlight. Two days later, the water might be 55 or 60. In the winter,


Let me guess, a shalow pond with a black bottom? About the worse thing
you can get for fish... Our pond never gets over 78-80 degrees, even
in the middle of August when the air temperature never drops below 75 and
is usually over 100. It does get shade in the middle of the day and it's
3 feet deep.


however, it is not unusual for a temperature to be below -30 for weeks
on end. After a while, I just became to frustrated to keep on doing it.


I'm pretty sure there are folks up north who have ponds. If you are interested,
you could ask on rec.ponds how they do it.


I live out in the country, and thus have no trees to provide shelter to
these ponds. One was about 4 1/2 feet deep, the other 6 feet deep. The
problem would be that because it is prairie with few trees, most area
get sunlight for extended hours, especially in summer when we can have
upwards of 18 hours of daylight. I used clear plastick for the botton,
and it was covered in sand.