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What would be the lowest water temperature survivable by either Koi or Goldfish?
LIke Derek stated.....I do not think your gonna have any thing to worry about with a pond and freezing weather. On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:09:04 +0000, Gill Passman wrote: Tristan wrote: The big this is dig it deep enough so the pond does not become one solid chunk of ice. I do not know the frost level in your area but I would not think its all that deep.. I dug down to 3 foot max on my old pond - it got around 3-4" of ice on the top when the weather was at its coldest.....I used to put one of the kid's balls on the surface to keep an air hole in the ice... .....That ground does offer good heat retention, and you will gain the heat lost fromn a foundation into a pond if it is built close enough in lots of cases.....Its unreal just how much heat can be lost through a foundation. I dunno if youy all have slabs or basements, (more than likely slabs) and even they will radiate and lose heat into the ground. The house is on concrete foundations - the part closest to the proposed pond was dug down to around 6 foot (it is an addition so I watched them do it).....never really thought about the house itself keeping the ground warm but it is pretty obvious - also explains why the water feature reservoir only gets a thin layer of ice..... Gill ------- I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! |
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