We'v had about a month of 100F weather and just a few light sprinkles of
rain. The fish are taking the heat well. I added extra aeration on the
720g fry tank. The water is staying around 85 to 88F.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:46:40 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

We'v had about a month of 100F weather and just a few light sprinkles of
rain. The fish are taking the heat well. I added extra aeration on the
720g fry tank. The water is staying around 85 to 88F.

It's been dry here in northern Florida too. We started this month
getting almost 4 3/4 inches of rain. Now it's almost the end of the
month and it looks like that's all we'll get. According to my
thermometer, we have yet to get into triple digits, 99.7, but still
not quite a hundred.

"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:46:40 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

We'v had about a month of 100F weather and just a few light sprinkles of
rain. The fish are taking the heat well. I added extra aeration on the
720g fry tank. The water is staying around 85 to 88F.

It's been dry here in northern Florida too. We started this month
getting almost 4 3/4 inches of rain. Now it's almost the end of the
month and it looks like that's all we'll get. According to my
thermometer, we have yet to get into triple digits, 99.7, but still
not quite a hundred.


I wish we'd gotten even half of that. The heat and drought here are
terrible. We've barely had 3" of rain since Spring. Trees and shrubs and
crops are dying. Our neighbor had to sell his cattle as this pasture is
gone. His stock pond dry for days now. Trees have dropped their leaves and
look dead. We're losing a lot of our landscaping plants. There's too much
to water to try and save. Every few weeks we get 2/10s of an inch or less
of rain which doesn't even wet the ground. And it's just the start of our
dry season; Sept and Oct.... the fall months. I've never seen anything like
this in my entire life.
--

RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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"Reel McKoi" wrote in message
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"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:46:40 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

We'v had about a month of 100F weather and just a few light sprinkles of
rain. The fish are taking the heat well. I added extra aeration on the
720g fry tank. The water is staying around 85 to 88F.

It's been dry here in northern Florida too. We started this month
getting almost 4 3/4 inches of rain. Now it's almost the end of the
month and it looks like that's all we'll get. According to my
thermometer, we have yet to get into triple digits, 99.7, but still
not quite a hundred.


I wish we'd gotten even half of that. The heat and drought here are
terrible. We've barely had 3" of rain since Spring. Trees and shrubs and
crops are dying. Our neighbor had to sell his cattle as this pasture is
gone. His stock pond dry for days now. Trees have dropped their leaves
and look dead. We're losing a lot of our landscaping plants. There's
too much to water to try and save. Every few weeks we get 2/10s of an
inch or less of rain which doesn't even wet the ground. And it's just
the start of our dry season; Sept and Oct.... the fall months. I've
never seen anything like this in my entire life.
--

RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö

I've had to add about 150 gallons per week to my pond for the last month
due to the heat and low humidity. I've never see the pond lose so much
water so fast. If it wasn't for the heat, one would think that the pond
was leaking. Fortunately, a cold front moved in here yesterday and
moderated the temperature and humidity a bit. And next week looks to be
much better than what we've had all month. It certainly has been a hot and
dry one. Probably the hottest and dryest I've seen here ever. Even worse
than in 1988.

George
Louisville, Kentucky

George