To Pump or Not To Pump

[Robert Ramirez]

Hi All,

As a fairly new ponder (first winter) I have wondered all winter long (Texas
winter mind you) if I'm even supposed to be running the pump and fountain
during this season.

Thanks.

[Tom La Bron]

Bob,

Don't were you live in Texas, but I live in North Central Oklahoma and my
pump is still running. I did put a small volume pump on for the winter
though, decreasing my flow frojm 4,000 gph to about 2,000 gph.

Tom L.L.
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"Robert Ramirez" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
>
> As a fairly new ponder (first winter) I have wondered all winter long
(Texas
> winter mind you) if I'm even supposed to be running the pump and fountain
> during this season.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

[BenignVanilla]

"Robert Ramirez" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
>
> As a fairly new ponder (first winter) I have wondered all winter long
(Texas
> winter mind you) if I'm even supposed to be running the pump and fountain
> during this season.

I have a bottom drain, so I do not run my pump. I slightly buy into the idea
of not circulating the colder top water with my warmer bottom water. Also,
my VF is very shallow, so I am not sure I could even make this work if I
wanted to. On the other hand, my neighbor runs his pump all year long to
keep a hole in the ice. So he has circulation of his water layers, and as
far as I know has never lost a pond full of fish even in some of our past
harsh winter. BTW, I am in MD. Near Baltimore. I guess zone 6.

BV.
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