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Pond Ice - Fish could have died
I have posted before about a pond that I have built that was a little
deeper then 36inches, no fish, I wanted to try and dry run over the summer and winter without fish to see how things would go. Well, I'm moving and now I have to take the pond apart and fill in back in. But here is the problem, the pond ice went right to the bottom, all 36+ inches. I'm not sure even 4ft would have solved the problem and that would have been the desired depth of my area (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) I will be building another pond at the new house, a little bigger, maybe 300 Gal, this was a small 150Gal, but I'm not sure I want to go 4ft deep, so if I put a couple fish in the pond, I will have to remove them come winter. What can I put them in, if I were to put them in the garage, the water would get below 50F, but would not freeze I'm sure. What kind and how large of a container would I need for the 2 koi I currently have which are in my indoor fish tank at 6.5inches, I would have to say come next winter they will be atleast 12 inches, too large for my current fish tank. Any suggestions would be helpful. Joel |
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Pond Ice - Fish could have died
For any small fish I would put them in a little kids pool. You know those
hard plastic round pools you can buy at Walmart for kids. If your koi aren't to big they might do alright in one for now, but they do grow fast. I know one girl had to move 3 koi's of her's and she looked around and got a big bathtub from a dump, cleanned it good and put hers in there for a month until she got a new pond dug at her new house. Priss "Superkitt" wrote in message .104... I have posted before about a pond that I have built that was a little deeper then 36inches, no fish, I wanted to try and dry run over the summer and winter without fish to see how things would go. Well, I'm moving and now I have to take the pond apart and fill in back in. But here is the problem, the pond ice went right to the bottom, all 36+ inches. I'm not sure even 4ft would have solved the problem and that would have been the desired depth of my area (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) I will be building another pond at the new house, a little bigger, maybe 300 Gal, this was a small 150Gal, but I'm not sure I want to go 4ft deep, so if I put a couple fish in the pond, I will have to remove them come winter. What can I put them in, if I were to put them in the garage, the water would get below 50F, but would not freeze I'm sure. What kind and how large of a container would I need for the 2 koi I currently have which are in my indoor fish tank at 6.5inches, I would have to say come next winter they will be atleast 12 inches, too large for my current fish tank. Any suggestions would be helpful. Joel |
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Pond Ice - Fish could have died
Priscilla,
I'm in Whitby. Have about a 250 gal x 26" deep pond. I installed an aquarium air pump in the fall with hose fixed to bubble (no airstone) at about 8"deep near one end of the pond. It kept an opening all winter - I could hear the air bubbling through water even during our severe cold spells. I don't know how thick the ice got but I assume no deeper than 8" at the end with the bubbler as there was water there. Totally thawed now and all looks normal. Anxious to see if my two koi come out of "hibernation" - my first winter too. Don "Priscilla McCullough" wrote in message ... For any small fish I would put them in a little kids pool. You know those hard plastic round pools you can buy at Walmart for kids. If your koi aren't to big they might do alright in one for now, but they do grow fast. I know one girl had to move 3 koi's of her's and she looked around and got a big bathtub from a dump, cleanned it good and put hers in there for a month until she got a new pond dug at her new house. Priss "Superkitt" wrote in message .104... I have posted before about a pond that I have built that was a little deeper then 36inches, no fish, I wanted to try and dry run over the summer and winter without fish to see how things would go. Well, I'm moving and now I have to take the pond apart and fill in back in. But here is the problem, the pond ice went right to the bottom, all 36+ inches. I'm not sure even 4ft would have solved the problem and that would have been the desired depth of my area (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) I will be building another pond at the new house, a little bigger, maybe 300 Gal, this was a small 150Gal, but I'm not sure I want to go 4ft deep, so if I put a couple fish in the pond, I will have to remove them come winter. What can I put them in, if I were to put them in the garage, the water would get below 50F, but would not freeze I'm sure. What kind and how large of a container would I need for the 2 koi I currently have which are in my indoor fish tank at 6.5inches, I would have to say come next winter they will be atleast 12 inches, too large for my current fish tank. Any suggestions would be helpful. Joel |
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Pond Ice - Fish could have died
Don
I too am in Whitby. My pond is about 40" deep and this winter even with a floating heater and air stones my pond managed to form ice on the surface during those nasty cold spells, sometimes it was frozen over for days at a time, but alas all is melted now and seems like all my fish survived, now I will have to wait to see how the frogs did when they dig themselves out of the plants. Sharon On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:47:17 GMT, "Don Falconer" wrote: Priscilla, I'm in Whitby. Have about a 250 gal x 26" deep pond. I installed an aquarium air pump in the fall with hose fixed to bubble (no airstone) at about 8"deep near one end of the pond. It kept an opening all winter - I could hear the air bubbling through water even during our severe cold spells. I don't know how thick the ice got but I assume no deeper than 8" at the end with the bubbler as there was water there. Totally thawed now and all looks normal. Anxious to see if my two koi come out of "hibernation" - my first winter too. Don "Priscilla McCullough" wrote in message ... For any small fish I would put them in a little kids pool. You know those hard plastic round pools you can buy at Walmart for kids. If your koi aren't to big they might do alright in one for now, but they do grow fast. I know one girl had to move 3 koi's of her's and she looked around and got a big bathtub from a dump, cleanned it good and put hers in there for a month until she got a new pond dug at her new house. Priss "Superkitt" wrote in message .104... I have posted before about a pond that I have built that was a little deeper then 36inches, no fish, I wanted to try and dry run over the summer and winter without fish to see how things would go. Well, I'm moving and now I have to take the pond apart and fill in back in. But here is the problem, the pond ice went right to the bottom, all 36+ inches. I'm not sure even 4ft would have solved the problem and that would have been the desired depth of my area (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) I will be building another pond at the new house, a little bigger, maybe 300 Gal, this was a small 150Gal, but I'm not sure I want to go 4ft deep, so if I put a couple fish in the pond, I will have to remove them come winter. What can I put them in, if I were to put them in the garage, the water would get below 50F, but would not freeze I'm sure. What kind and how large of a container would I need for the 2 koi I currently have which are in my indoor fish tank at 6.5inches, I would have to say come next winter they will be atleast 12 inches, too large for my current fish tank. Any suggestions would be helpful. Joel |
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