On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:12:56 GMT, wrote:

winter caught me in flagrante. I still dont have the plastic over the top and even
with my 500 watt heater the pond skimmed over briefly. my $500 air pump quit (it is
6-8 years old) but school is nearly over and I WILL get the really clear plastic on
there, get a couple airstones in, get the bucket filter rigged up and get a
greenhouse over that... altho I will have to wade thru the snow to do it.
argggghhhh. poor fishies are cold, cold, cold. Ingrid

I left the stock tank heater plugged in for over 24 hours. Pond temp up to
37* so DH unplugged it around 11am today. The high temp today was all of
maybe 28*, pond only lost 2 degrees in 10 hours. Plugged it back in as the
temps are suppose to really drop. Oh, for some snow to give some
insulation. I don't think the stock heater is going off at all with the
slow moving water. Hope it does fry out, I have a spare, but the screens
are all frozen to the ground. ~ jan

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Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a
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