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Fish freezing solid in shallows
Robin R wrote:
buckets of hot water recently and picked up a lot of ice (with water gloves). I'm tired of it! I agree a stock tank heater can really help, especially with goldfish, they will park themselves around it like orange submarines at a docking station. My screens managed to hold up with 14" of snow and then rain on top to make it good and heavy, in one place I can see the screen hitting the water, as water level is quite high. Otherwise, all was looking good as far as ice free. Water temp is up to 37F today, as we go thru a thaw, but we've yet to get hit 40F since the big freeze, so I was surprised at the temp. Unfortunately, one of my weaker fish, who I was treating for fin rot prior to the down turn in temps this fall, succumbed and I found floating this morning. I had to move snow back to lift the screen, but at least she wasn't stuck in ice where I would have had to wait or risk disturbing the other fish to get her out. I hope she is my only causality, but we still have a lot of winter to go and critical spring to go through. I can only hope the snow we have will melt off and I can pull the screens tight and reset before another snowy system, if we get one, comes in. Sorry about your woes Robin, is work at least going better? ~ jan |
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