What does your pond look like ... Today?

[addy1]

.I told my sisters that is it .But they both keep giving me hints about there bathrooms .I

Take a few year break Sissy. We do a ton of remodeling and it is darn exhausting. And to build the boxes for the cabinets for a kitchen and all that is involved, no wonder you are exhausted.

We both promise each other we are done with major tear outs and rebuilds. Now we need to catch up the house we live in...............

 

[MitchM]

Hooray JB you are melting and heat is coming back for a bit. No more ice here either and fish have risen from the depths. So many orange fish. I may have to give some away and change up the colors a bit.

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I like all the orange, jw.

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[MitchM]

Pond frozen up the pond breather breathing away.


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Pond breather looks like it's working well addy.
This winter I used some zip ties to keep the heating strip tight against the "aeration tube" I'll call it.
It may not be necessary for your climate, just a fyi.

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[bettasngoldfish]

I would like to have more white fish or shubbies in the mix but I have what I have and it's fine. I started out w/12 feeder fish and added a few shubbies and red/white fish and don't know where the solid white ones came from. Guess somewhere in the breeding.

I have an all white goldfish who was orange with a bit of white when I first got her.

Over time she changed a lot

She is the all white fish in the first picture and she is the orange and white top left in the second picure.

 

[addy1]

Pond breather looks like it's working well addy.
This winter I used some zip ties to keep the heating strip tight against the "aeration tube" I'll call it.
It may not be necessary for your climate, just a fyi.

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Thanks I will keep that in mind, so far all looks fine. We never get as bad as you do, well at least so far the polar vortex has not hit us that hard.

 

[Mike in Vermont]

It warmed up and rained last night. The ice is gone from the pond. I guess the fish will get a few more meals.

 

[morewater]

Got my breather the other day, and today was mild enough that I was able to get a hole in the ice to install it. Unfortunately, the leaf net now has a hole in it as the leaves sank it to water level, where it froze in the ice. C'est la vie (that's French, 'cause chicks dig it when I talk French).

It's running.

 

[j.w]

@sissy boy you sure do have a lot of ambition is all I can say and you do such wonderful work!

I love all my fishies, just wish I had a bigger pond so I could add more colors. @bettasngoldfish I have some oj and white ones that look like that one of yours. They look like the oj color is falling off. Guess they will turn white also. Good cuz the while ones show nice in the dark water too.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I have an all white goldfish who was orange with a bit of white when I first got her.

I had two fish turn all white this year, plus a new baby is all white so I went from no all-white fish to three all-white fish. One had my favorite pattern, so I was disappointed. I suppose technically it's not "all" white, it has a yellowish head.

 

[slakker]

All the pumps are off and the leaves are fallen… took this tranquil picture of a maple leaf in the pond, how Canadian of me.

 

[Nepen]

It's been very warm here, in the 70s yesterday and 60s today so my fish have been having a good time out.

Realized two of my fish are missing.. probably dead but I couldnt find the body! One is just a sarasa with white body and red on its head (like a koi) and one is my pretty Watonai

 

[callingcolleen1]

Are you sure they are not just hiding unDer plants for winter?

 

[Nepen]

My pond is small and have very few hiding places, very little plants and all died back already anyway.

The day that I was forced to re-fill my pond (the water was diverted out from the pond by leaves) all the fish came out but those two. I cleaned the pond that day and I would've scared them out if they were hiding. Then the past 2-3 days that all the fish came out they were nowhere to be found so I know they are missing for good

I wish they are just hiding though. Last year I lost one fish like this too, just vanished, before the freeze.. I thought he was just hiding but then in spring I re-arranged the whole pond and still couldn't find him so I know he's just gone.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Sorry to hear that. Sometimes one knows what happens when fish go missing. In spring and summer I get grass snakes that sneak in and take the odd fish.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Hey Look!! 'Fishy"

Picture Post Card and look under tree Sissy, I left you a present! ! He he he