"BenignVanilla" wrote in message ...
This will be my first winter so I am dabbling in ideas with keeping a hole
in the ice. Originally, I was going to use a bubbler but I am trying
something different and want some feedback. I have a small filter box full
of filter media and a small, tiny, little pump that sits in side of it. I
have it sitting in some shallows, and with the pump plugged in, it is just
powerful enough to splash water about 2-3 inches into the air. I am thinking
this will do plenty. Any thoughts? Should I take it out of the filter box so
if that freezes, the pump can still get water from the pond?


BV, I used a pump in a filter box for my fist two winters and had
no problems if the water was only slightly breaking the surface. Too
high with the water column and it froze into a dome and put water on
top of the ice. (zone 7 NJ) I now
use an air stone because I like adding the extra oxygen.


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