Can feel the frost coming soon, this morning was barely 40 degrees, it felt cold even with a heavy sweat shirt at 6am this morning. Some of the tropical floaters in the pond are dying back, time to chuck them out, its all down hill for them now, water temp getting too cold, even the fish are swimming much slower and hang more out at the bottom of the pond now. Did not feed them today, was pretty cool, they did not "beg" for food either. Soon they won't need fish food, they will graze on "pond greens", like the hornwort and string algae, and the algae will begin to grow again, the only greens that grow well under the ice. In the summer the large Sedges starve out the algae, I only seem to get it during the winter and early spring, as the sedges are dormant then. The hornwort is also starting to "sink" instead of float, cause the water is getting too cool now, in the winter it sinks right to the bottom of the pond and lays in the "sludge". I have to be careful not the throw it out in the spring with the sludge!
Put a big net up over the pond today, the leaves are really starting to fall now, need to mulch in the grass and leaves soon, they bug me on the grass looking messy, like fall or something! Ha ha ha. Can you see the net? Its black and very hard to see even when right out in front, cool huh!