Winter Pond Temps

[MitchM]

Wow, that`s a lot of beer!
Deposits here for the mini kegs are around $40!
Makes for an expensive dock.

 

[j.w]

Maybe the guy has a lot of friends who have lots of parties. You just gotta hang w/ the right crowd :beerchug:

 

[Craig58]

Location: West Chester, Pa
Pond Description:
Style: Formal
Approx. gallons/liter: 3600 G
Max depth: 4 ft
General Notes: Only running air pump. Airstone located 12" below surface on shelf
15 Koi, 8" - 24"

Date: 13-Jan-2013
Time: 2345 hrs
Outside air temp: 44.9 F
Surface pond temp: 40.5 (4.7C)
Bottom pond temp: 42.0F

Warm weekend for January! Looking like a mild wimter.

Craig

 

[Mucky_Waters]

Outside temp -8 C
Pond water near the surface +1 C
Bottom of the pond temp +3.5 C
2 ft+ of snow covering the pond.

The pond is completely frozen over now, and has been for a couple weeks. No heaters, no air pumps, no holes in the ice. The fish, frogs and turtles will have to survive on whatever oxygen was saturated into the water before it froze over. I'm pretty confident they'll be alright.

 

[sissy]

You can do that with the heavy duty foam insulation under it also .There is a floating dock at a pond near my house for those foot paddle boats and he used the blue stuff under it.It is attached to the ground on land and then he has the other part attached by some time chain as i see in the winter he folds it back over the land dock .He has had it that way for over 8 years now .It was made from used pallets

 

[Blackdog128]

iam not sure if my koi fish lived in the pond i have her in right here in ut its been -8 every night for the last 2 weeks and i can't get to the pond the owner has left for the winter to az i don't want to trespass in the back yard to see how the fish is doing so i may not have a koi fish to pick up in the spring time so wish me luck that she made it this winter time

 

[callingcolleen1]

Awwwwe!! That's is just terrible! They abandon the koi and left them to die! I would go into the yard anyway and have a "look see"!!

 

[sissy]

yeh I forget about your colder weather and think I would give it a try also .jut tell cops don't put handcuffs on tight and if see a story of fish nappi9ng there we will stick up for you just tell cops to go on the pond sight

 

[Blackdog128]

haha thanks u all lol

 

[sissy]

Take a pic as cops take you away so we can defend you :razz: Or if you get away with it a pic of the fish as you sneak away with it .remember the net .

 

[callingcolleen1]

Pond ice all melted here, weather gone crazy, supposed to be January and it rained this morning! It was warmer in this morning in Grande Prairie (Northern Alberta) then it was in Vegas USA!!!

 

[j.w]

Wow Colleen your temps sure have been fluctuating a lot. Now you are about the same temp as we are here. Oops there is a burn ban here and I didn't know it and made a fire this morning. I'm letting it burn out now..............don't want a $1,000. fine!

 

[sissy]

FIRE FIRE

 

[j.w]

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sissy don't tell on me!

 

[sissy]

do they offer a reward .JW .Why a burn ban any way with all the rain you get .