winter - fish in or out ?

Joel,

I also tent my pond, but I am not in your climate zone. I think that you
will want to use clear polyethylene sheeting instead of pond liner. The
pond liner is good and heavy and will easily withstand any snow loads that
you could put on it, but I think it is important that the fish have some
light get through. I use two layers of 6 mil sheeting and one layer of a
bubble wrap like material that is used as a solar cover for heating swimming
pools in the spring. I am not sure how much light penetrates feet of snow
and inches of ice, but the cover has to go on before that occurs, and won't
come off until after the spring thaw.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html

"Joel" wrote in message
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"Gale Pearce" wrote in
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I tent my pond up, its not large, so its not hard to do this. I had a
kids gazebo, but the material after so many years just became old and I
was going to toss the whole thing out, but desided to keep the frame, the
top half is just the right size to cover the whole pond and keep a space
of up to 18" in the middle down to 6" at the sides.
I had alot of rubber from the pond left over so I cover the frame with
this.

Joel.

"RichToyBox" wrote in
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Joel,

I also tent my pond, but I am not in your climate zone. I think that
you will want to use clear polyethylene sheeting instead of pond
liner. The pond liner is good and heavy and will easily withstand any
snow loads that you could put on it, but I think it is important that
the fish have some light get through. I use two layers of 6 mil
sheeting and one layer of a bubble wrap like material that is used as
a solar cover for heating swimming pools in the spring. I am not sure
how much light penetrates feet of snow and inches of ice, but the
cover has to go on before that occurs, and won't come off until after
the spring thaw.

What I do is put the liner on 3/4 of the pond and 1/4 is a clear plastic
for light over the deep end where the fish stay over the winter, I guess I
cough use just the clear stuff, but I was thinking of added insulation with
the heavy.

Joel.