If you have a lot of leaves in the bottom of the pond, it won't matter -
both frogs and fish will die if the pond freezes over and seals in the "bad"
gases - I have seen it happen - when the pond opens up in the spring, the
water will be black and everything that was living will float to the surface
and you won't forget the smell
Gale :~)

However, many folks are more
into a "natural" pond, so fish loss is taken in stride as being part of
Nature's way. I get a big kick out of watching my frogs, but I like the
fish better. Jan's right - but it's too late now to clean your ponds if
there are leaves in the bottom. Hopefully Spring will not be too
"interesting".

Lee



"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
For those of you who think leaving a few leaves on the bottom is no big
deal. Well today I was doing some vaccing of the last of the leaves to
blow
in when I upturned a bucket that had a few leaves and rain water, it had
been sitting like that since the leaves started falling (about a month).
Talk about PeaEwwww! Can't imagine my fish disturbing something like
that
on the pond bottom and surviving it. ~ jan

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