Thanks
"kathy" wrote in message
oups.com...
Fish and turtles need the same care during
the winter. They need a hole open in the ice
so gasses can dissipate from mulm that
gathers in the pond.
Garden ponds are just too overstocked compared
to Mother Nature so we compensate by keeping
a hole open in the ice.
Turtles hibernate under the ice in the winter,
they can 'breathe' oxygen thru a gland at
the base of their tail. They are temperature
driven, so when it gets cold they sloooooow
down.

kathy :-)www.blogfromthebog.com
this week ~ the damselfly

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