Love the way you framed the fish tank with wood, makes it looks so natural.
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Colleen! You measured your water temperature!
Maybe you can post your water temperature on a really hot day later this summer as well.
Pond and greenhouse are looking great!
I've still got a foot of snow on my pond plus probably a foot of ice. I do have a 2 foot opening from water circulation though.
Maybe you can post your water temperature on a really hot day later this summer as well.
Pond and greenhouse are looking great!
I've still got a foot of snow on my pond plus probably a foot of ice. I do have a 2 foot opening from water circulation though.
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Yes, I bought a new thermometer and hoping it does not go missing again... I tied it down so may be that will help.Colleen! You measured your water temperature!
Maybe you can post your water temperature on a really hot day later this summer as well.
Pond and greenhouse are looking great!
I've still got a foot of snow on my pond plus probably a foot of ice. I do have a 2 foot opening from water circulation though.
I talked to my friend " Rob" from Animal World and he has super big pond that is still frozen over solid as well and he has not seen his fish since last year. I think I have him convinced to add a lower "marsh" so he can run water all winter like me. Then the upper pond should not get so much ice as the water will be at the level of the ice all the time and keep his ice down. Rob is on my facebook and watches my U-TUBE videos all the time. He used to tell be it was way colder on the 'outskirts" of town and thats why he had so much ice. Now he is listening to me I think and tired of tons of ice.
I always tell him he should do UTube channel as he makes ponds for everybody in town and helps us with our "dead pumps" too.
But he does not know anything much about computer's and he is like 12 years younger than me. Maybe he will change his mind about that too. Everybody getting "smart" TV's these days and its interesting to watch other people with their ponds from around the world. I barely watch regular TV anymore. I am fascinated with ponds in the UK these days as they all have super expensive equipment and huge modern indoor filters, but still get crappy water. They have very fat koi over there too that are so fat they can hardly jump. They have water right to top of ponds and claim their fish are too fat to jump out.... They feed them like crazy or there season is so long they get very fat and big. They all like their koi very fat. Mine are big too but not fat like as in "obese" and jump very high some warm summer days... Ok now I am rambling....
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Make sure your smart tv isn't listening in on your conversations when you're in the room.
I don't trust those things.
I don't trust those things.
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They would get board watching me, I just stare at the TV like a zombie, ha ha ha
Here is that video from UTube that I commented on and asked him if he was scared his big fish would jump out, and he said they were too fat to jump out. Nice big fat koi
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Good grief, I think those glass side panels are magnifying glass!
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Lots of them UK pond people have glass windows in their ponds..
That is so cool! I would love to have a window in my raised pond.
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In my experience surprising your wife anything but jewelry is risky.
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lol my hubby surprised me with a tractor for our first anniversary..............I loved it!In my experience surprising your wife anything but jewelry is risky.
@callingcolleen1 I'm following your greenhouse tours, and love the air plants you have in there,I would like to have something like that in my permanent greenhouse, but I know nothing about air plants, how do you take care of them and how can they survive in the winter? I know you have a heater but what temp do you keep in the greenhouse for tropical plants to survive?
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Air plants need warm moist air and collect water though the air. On dry days you should mist them. They do well next to fish tanks and in moist grer houses. I keep green house warm and cosy in winter and try not to let temperature get below 60 degrees at night. Day time you won't have to heat much over winter if the sun is shining bright. I plant to keep fish tanks in greenhouse all sumner. I have two doors and air flows good inside greenhouse and cools greenhouse off nicely. Soon the leaves will pop out on trees and that shades gree house very nicely all summer. You can post me some picture's of your greenhouse and I would love to see them. Hope that helps and good luck with your greenhouse.
Yes you've helped a lot, thank you!
The permanent greenhouse isn't built yet, but I'm hoping to start building as soon as we're done with the second pond, I will for sure post pics and probably have a ton of more questions for you, if you don't mind
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Yesterday was so darn hot, think the temperature was up to 75 degrees and with that super hot sun blazing in the sky, it felt even hotter! No leaves out on the trees yet, so no shade either. I cleaned one of my biggest underwater filters, it is 4 EZ Bio filters all connected together as you can connected several together to a larger sized pump then and they really work very well all winter long. This is the first time in over 6 months that I have cleaned that filter and there was lots of thick muck coming out of those filters when I cleaned them with a strong current of water.