On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:37:50 -0600, W Dale
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===I have heard that your fish and sunken plants still need sunlight. As
===long as you do not completely cover the surface of the pond ...
===Anyone else?
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===Bill Stock wrote:
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===I'm going to leave the fishes in the pond this year, as their indoor cousins
===are maxing out my tanks.
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===So the plan is to leave the pump going beneath the surface (1') and put one
===of the 100 watt heaters within a couple of feet of the pump. I'm also
===tempted to cover the pond with 2" of stryofoam sandwhiched between a couple
===of sheets of plywood. Perhaps paint the plywood black for the solar heating.
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===Opinions please.
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===BTW: I'm in zone 5b, pond is roughly 4x6 and 30" deep.
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It does not take long to do in submerged plants fromlack of sunlight.
I lost a few nice containerized plants during Ivan when I made a tent
to cover over the wifes 1/2 barrel. Since time was a major
consideration, the barrel half was covered a day before Ivan hit, but
the pump / filter remained inoperation until the ower went out, and it
may have been covered yet 10 or so more hours after Ivan left until we
got around to uncovering it, but in the meantime we used generator
power so it had filtration during this time....and my plants still got
awfully yellow pretty darn fast.......The cat tails, arrowheads and
ribbon grass all kicked the bucket in that short time frame.
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