Claude wrote:
I love the theory Bill, but wouldn't a big pond be a lot less affected by
gases than our "making an assumption here" smaller, say 500 to 2000 gallon
ponds. I would love to think your right, and I'm not saying your not, just
going by what pretty much "assumption again" everyone here has said post
after post. I guess the question here would be has anyone ever lost any
fishies do to the pond freezing over, not solid, just frozen top layer so no
gases could escape........I am a rookie here at best, only a year or so's
experience, not arguing here, if there's no need, cool sign me up. Just
don't want my fishies mad at me......Claude



Yes, I lost all my fish. It was a very cold winter with a
very heavy snow load. I tried to keep an opening in the ice
by putting a tea kettle on it daily to melt the ice. Then
we had a blizzard and the snow load from the porch roof went
on top of the pond, I had to let the snow melt before I
could get to the fish. When that finally happened all my
fish were dead. That was a horrible experience that I would
wish on no one!
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Bonnie
NJ