Zëbulon wrote:
"BoyPete" wrote in message
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Zëbulon wrote:
It must be global warming. It's the first winter since 1995 that I
have pumps and filters running in January. The cheap bucket filters
are working great. :-)

Interesting point........global warming. Here in London, the weather
is mild, if very wet. I have a weather station with a temp sensor
beside the pond. The lowest recorded temp was 1.5 degC. so far. ATM,
6pm, it is 12 degC. Water temp stable at 10degC I read a lot about
pond heating a couple of months ago..........maybe in a few years,
we'l l be pumping refrigerated water around the system!!
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LOL!!! Yeah, I know what you mean. It's also about 10C here today,
or for us around 64F. We've had some good rain in the last 24 hours.
The spring is running so I'm pumping clean spring water into the
larger ponds. Free water! Unnaturally warm for mid winter. We did
have a real cold snap for a few days that froze the top of the water
solid except for breathing "holes" in November. It's been more or
less springlike ever since. The bulbs are really coming up now. I
fear they will bloom much too early and the flowers be undersized and
ruined. The good thing is I am able to feed the small koi fry that
were starting to die. They do digest food at 45F as I see the stool
collecting on the bottom. :-) The fancy GF all made it through that
bitter cold spell in fine shape. They seem more tolerant of the cold
than koi.
We have another poster here who I believe also lives in or near
London but doesn't have a pond yet. Her name is Gill.

For midwinter, I have a lot of blanket weed. I'm leaving it for the fish to
nibble. I'd love to chat with Gill if she'd care to get in touch.
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