Pond in the foothills

[MitchM]

Me too and I'm looking forward to what all the cameras capture!
I have 4 set up.

 

[addy1]

neat! Do yours feed a dvr? or saved on the cam itself? When the bugs are flying mine are triggered constantly at night. Wind blowing constant trigger too

 

[MitchM]

I run the cams on a macintosh computer saved to a separate hard drive.
I'm trying to program it together with our weather webpage so it will post regular updates.
It's not as simple as it sounds, lol.
I can set the webcam sensitivity to filter out noise like snowflakes, flies and debris that get into the picture.

 

[MitchM]

I'm working on setting up the sensitivity.
I walked out to the pond and back. At this temperature in my housecoat I wasn't out there long, lol.
I'm in the picture just to the right.
Hopefully moose, deer, ect. will show up pretty well.

 

[callingcolleen1]

holding on for just a little while longer... Dare I say "Spring is coming" least somebody beat me! he he he

 

[j.w]

I think I see glowing eyeballs out there in the distance Mitch

Will be cool watching that camera to see what comes now in the dark of the night

 

[waynefrcan]

HEy Mitch how those pond breathers holding up? On mine I hear the air pump running but aeration spots are iced over now for weeks. I hope they still pumping air in the pond.

 

[MitchM]

Hi Wayne,
They're both still going strong. The ice is about 6 inches from the top of them and the snow depth is maybe another foot above the top of the breathers.
There's about a 1 foot diameter open circle of snow around each one that protects them from the wind.
My floating thermometer is toast though. The transmitter got completely enveloped in the ice. There's about 2 feet of ice on my pond.

 

[callingcolleen1]

That is a lot of ice on your pond, how deep is your pond Mitch?

 

[MitchM]

5 feet, Colleen.

 

[callingcolleen1]

My friend who has this pet store in town, has this really big pond that is nine feet deep he says. All he used this year was a bubbler and now the lines are frozen and he says he has over two feet of ice this year and is worried about his big koi he told me today while I was up shopping. It has been a much colder winter than last year for sure. The 1500 watt heater in my pond will be switched back to the 1200 watt tomorrow as the nights are not AS cold the last couple nights and now I have some larger holes open to see the fish again.

 

[addy1]

I wrapped the feed from my bubbler in pipe insulation, one of the things they mention is the warm air coming out of the aerator creates moisture which will start to freeze up.
We are no way as cold as you are Colleen, it is -7 right now, bubbler has run all winter without an issue.
Hope his koi are ok when it defrosts.

 

[CountryEscape]

My air bubbler has pushed the line off 2 or 3 times now. I thought maybe the pump vibrated away from the line, but thinking the line froze, and the air could not push through, and then it pushed line off. I don't have it secured, just pushed onto the pump. I think my pump is just like yours, Addy, and never thought to put the pipe insulation on it to help keep it from freezing. Adding that to my "to-do" list for this year.

 

[addy1]

I also use a hose clamp to keep the hose on the port coming out of the aerator. The warm air is mainly right at the exit from the aerator. The insulation will keep the air from condensing.
I do have around 20 feet of insulation on the line, the pump is at one end of the pond, the air flow is 3/4 of the way down the pond.

 

[Alan G]

Looks like you have put in a ton of hard work. I hope to build a larger pond one day, as does every pond enthusiast I suppose. I will be bookmarking this thread as a reference. Thank you for all the great info and tons of cool pictures. http://mgeorge1050.hubpages.com/hub/pondfish