Our fall is just starting. Nights hitting the upper 50's. The plants
are still doing well, although the lilies have slowed flowering.

We got some solar lights too. My youngest son, working for the
governor for a semester instead of his 3rd year semester at Stanfod
law, has begun adding solar lights around the pond. They look great.
He mounted some strings of lights under the benches that I had bought
but not installed. They look great!

Now I have some multi-LED lights for in the pond and the water falls.
They are very bright! The pond ones show the junk in the water! Have
to think about how to deal with that.

Our ponnd will be a night show case when Tim gets done.

Jim

where did you get the LEDs? our light in the pond shows the junk a bit too, I look
thru it to the fish. but I did used to have a string of lights shining down on the
water, was very nice too. Ingrid

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:41:25 CST, Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Now I have some multi-LED lights for in the pond and the water falls.
They are very bright! The pond ones show the junk in the water! Have
to think about how to deal with that.

Phyllis and Jim wrote:

We got some solar lights too. My youngest son, working for the
governor for a semester instead of his 3rd year semester at Stanfod
law, has begun adding solar lights around the pond. They look great.
He mounted some strings of lights under the benches that I had bought
but not installed. They look great!

I've certainly been impressed with them so far. I bought some solar
powered lights around 8 years ago to try and light the old pond and the
garden but they were a great disappointment - solar powered lighting has
certainly advanced. I think that by next summer I'll start looking into
how to get lighting into all of the garden by this means - we've always
wanted to do it but have been put off to a certain degree by the thought
of running mains cables all over the garden - if the solar work it is a
good, cheap, environmentally friendly way of doing it - shame they don't
come with an off switch but I guess more expensive solar light systems
might.



Now I have some multi-LED lights for in the pond and the water falls.
They are very bright! The pond ones show the junk in the water! Have
to think about how to deal with that.

Now, I've wondered about doing this....my worry has been that it might
freak the fish but yep, junk in the water would also be an issue and
spoil the overall effect. Are your LEDs solar powered or mains?

Gill





Our ponnd will be a night show case when Tim gets done.

Jim

I got the lights from Fountain Mountain for $25 a set. They are NOT
solar. But the power to the water is low because of the transformer.
Protecting the transformer is being thought about very carefully. I
will try to get a pic once Tim gets them installed.

Jim

I've always wondered if underwater lights
would mess with a fish's sleep schedule,
or day and night schedule or whatever.
Can you set them to turn off after evening
viewing hours?

k :-)

I am setting them up with a switch. The solar lights are low enough
in power to be no problem for the fish.

Jim

mine are set on a timer to go off 3 hours after dark. Ingrid

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:26:18 CST, k wrote:

I've always wondered if underwater lights
would mess with a fish's sleep schedule,
or day and night schedule or whatever.
Can you set them to turn off after evening
viewing hours?

k :-)