winter - fish in or out ?

"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.