New Topic - What is the current status of your pond?

Covered in snow!
With a nice hole kept open by the air pump and bubbler. We have about
five inches of snow on the ground.
The watercress froze in the ice and now is covered by snow but I bet it will
recover just fine come spring.
So far no kingfisher has shown up that I have noticed. A ponding friend had a
blue heron standing on her roof the other day.
The band is practicing downstairs, there's a fire in the firesplace and my
youngest is out practicing driving in the snow with Dad.


kathy

Covered in snow!
With a nice hole kept open by the air pump and bubbler. We have about
five inches of snow on the ground.

Have the watergardening Labs tried to do any ice skating this year?
~ jan
~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

Hovering around 50 degrees. I turn the fountain/filter
on when it gets above 60 degrees, but in a few
days turn it off again. That's the goldfish pond. The
other two (minnow only) ponds are on their own and
do fine.

Gail
near San Antonio (SouthCentral) TX

Hovering around 50 degrees. I turn the fountain/filter
on when it gets above 60 degrees, but in a few
days turn it off again. That's the goldfish pond. The
other two (minnow only) ponds are on their own and
do fine. Gail

Gail, if I was in your situation I'd have my filter on all the time, you'll
have no troubles at all with spring start up if you do that. "Supposedly"
our bacteria doesn't die in cold temps, some theorize, but creates a film
over itself and waits till conditions are more desirable. Even though my
water is down to almost freezing I still keep one bio-chamber going with
slow flow all winter. It really made a difference last spring. ~ jan


~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:

What is the current status of your pond?

My pond has no ice now - what was there melted. The
goldfish and orfe are showing themselves occasionally
but the koi are staying down.
--
Bonnie
NJ

The record and near record warmth that we have had since the first, has
warmed the ponds up to the 70 degree mark so the heaters went off. Saving a
few dollars a day right now. The fish eat voraciously twice a day. The
taro are growing and the hyacynths are surviving. Strange weather this
year. Christmas was several degrees below normal, and this year running
between 20 and 30 degrees above normal.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html
Zone 7a/b
"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
What is the current status of your pond?

The screens have 4" of snow on them, but with my wireless thermometer I
can
see that the water is liquid, I can also "hear" the water moving... but
that requires going "outside".... like brrrrr!

I haven't even gone up and looked at the lily pond, maybe I'll do that
today. I'm hoping the fact I floated milk jugs on it that they are holding
the shade cloth off the surface of the water. ~ jan

See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Defrosted~
Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website

Today the watergardening labradors decided to live dangerously and started
walking on top of the frozen pond. Being that all the teenagers are back in
school and dh back at work this was an alarming thing to see. Visions of trying
to get two water soaked large dogs out of the pond...
Luckily they did not fall through. Today.




kathy

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
What is the current status of your pond?

The screens have 4" of snow on them, but with my wireless thermometer I
can
see that the water is liquid, I can also "hear" the water moving... but
that requires going "outside".... like brrrrr!

I haven't even gone up and looked at the lily pond, maybe I'll do that
today. I'm hoping the fact I floated milk jugs on it that they are holding
the shade cloth off the surface of the water. ~ jan

See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Defrosted~
Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website

Pond is 38°F near the bottom, no ice and very little snow. No sign of the
fish. I haven't had any ice yet, as we've had a mild winter (-10°F coldest)
and the cover is doing it's job. Although the heater is running more often,
now that the ground is losing it's heat. Supposed to be 10°C here on
Thursday.

--
Bill in Zone 5A

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
What is the current status of your pond?

The screens have 4" of snow on them, but with my wireless thermometer I
can
see that the water is liquid, I can also "hear" the water moving... but
that requires going "outside".... like brrrrr!

I haven't even gone up and looked at the lily pond, maybe I'll do that
today. I'm hoping the fact I floated milk jugs on it that they are holding
the shade cloth off the surface of the water. ~ jan
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Pond? What pond? Oh Sh!t...I forgot about the pond...


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BV
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I'll be leaning on the bus stop post.

I just checked and the nice rich green carpet on the bottom of my pond
is string algae. The stuff beginning to cover the surface of the pond
is not duckweed, but azolla. I am hoping the azolla through shade and
filtering during the winter will help hold down the string algae growth
until the water warms up in the spring.

The golden shiner minnows are still swimming. The tadpoles are still
moving about. No sign of the frogs. All my marginal plants are sitting
on the bottom so the pots won't crack. There are some huge anacharis
"bushes" growing. I have tubs of water hyacinth in my greenhouse ready
to put in after the last frost.

Since my pond is spring fed, nutrient filtering is important all year
long. Is there anything I can do now or do I just play catchup in the
spring?
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