CArol has no clue as to what the weather or winter conditions in the
UK are like yet she can not resist theurge to make a post so it looks
like she knows somehting, but what she said means nothing at all
because it never answered the original question......just the urge to
post,, so she can try and drum up a few new gulible folks and see if
they wanna be her new found friends.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:40:55 -0600, "Koi-lo"
wrote:

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==="Gary John" wrote in message
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=== My first winter with a garden goldfish pond here in the UK.
=== Do I turn the water pump (submersible) off or keep it on?
===
===## That would depend on the climate you live in. Here in the USA, zone 6,
===people shut the pumps off so the water can go through it's conversion. The
===warmer water drops to the bottom where the fish spend the winter months. A
===running pump can stop that from happening. Also the fish, in a state of
===hibernation, don't need to be fighting a current. Just keep a hole open in
===the ice.
===
=== If it needs to be turned off, do I take the 'Green Genie' out and clean
=== all the internal filters.
=== Sorry for asking two questions for the price of one!
===
===## I don't use Green Genie so can't make any suggestions there.......
===
===Reel McKoi.... frugal ponding since 1995...
===My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
===http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy
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