What is your weather like ... today

[MitchM]

Summer is my least favorite season. Sometimes it can be so hot outside it's too hot to work, which seems like a waste.

 

[addy1]

Summer is my least favorite season. Sometimes it can be so hot outside it's too hot to work, which seems like a waste.

How hot do you all get up there? We hit close to 100 with miserable humidity, I usually have to be in the house by 10-11a because of that.

 

[MitchM]

We can get up to 98F here, but anything above 80 is uncomfortable for me.
I don't know how you folks down south do it with your high humidity included.
It's pretty dry here.
I imagine most of you folks have air conditioning to have somewhere to escape to.
No A/C here.
You get used to where you live, I guess.

 

[addy1]

AC AC AC the savior........... 80 is my limit, heat makes me ill. I prefer 60-70 even 50f is not bad.
Never would think you would get that hot up there.

btw with your pond breather, so you put something around the pump container so it does not get mucked up over winter?

 

[MitchM]

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btw with your pond breather, so you put something around the pump container so it does not get mucked up over winter?

I did, but it became frozen in place at one point, so I took it away and the breathers did just fine on their own.
I'll keep an eye out if they do get buried with snow this winter, just in case.

 

[addy1]

So no extra filter stuff around the little white ball with the pump in it? I am going to try them this winter

 

[MitchM]

No extra filter stuff.
The pump doesn't really pump a lot of water.
Do you have yours yet?

 

[addy1]

Yes I picked them up over the summer. Still in the boxes, soon to be pulled out and put together.

They are "predicting" a winter colder than last winter.

Good to know about the pump, I was not sure if it would suck up a lot of debris and get plugged up over winter...............not that my garden pond has a lot of debris lol

 

[MitchM]

Plug it in and get it going, you'll see what I mean.
If you're like me, you'll think - "that's it?"

 

[addy1]

Plug it in and get it going, you'll see what I mean.
If you're like me, you'll think - "that's it?"

Yep I probably will do that.....
Another ? do you anchor yours to stay in one area? I have 2-3 foot range down to 5.5 feet, the fish hang out in the 5 foot deep area.

 

[MitchM]

I don't anchor them.
I don't run any circulation pumps in the winter, so there's nothing to move them around. Once there's an ice covering they stop drifting from wind. Mine wound up resting against a wall before a plant shelf and they did fine.
The big thing for my operation was the ability of the pumps to draw from deeper water so they did not plug up with ice as the ice cover got deeper over the winter.

 

[addy1]

Ok sounds good, we have never had more than 10 - 12 inches of ice on the pond. Well the first winter there was enough ice for the deer to walk on it. I had no fish at that time, that i knew of. Ended up with 5 fish in the spring. Thought I had killed them all off when I put them in our acidic well water, learning curve.

I don't think we would ever freeze real deep, we drift between freezing then bouncing up to warm enough to melt snow and ice then back down. You up there, freeze up and stay froze up.

 

[j.w]

Major rain storm here w/ thunder and lightning! The first clap of thunder made me jump out of my computer chair.............it was so unexpected for Heaven's sake!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Really nice afternoon! No wind, not to hot and not too cold! No bugs but tons of leaves have fallen. Thank goodness 4 leave nets!

 

[HARO]

Dropped below freezing overnight. Had to get out the scraper and scrape ice off the truck this morning! Calling for rain for the next 5 or 6 days. Started on my ark today!
John