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[QUOTE="callingcolleen1, post: 157123, member: 4209"]
Addy, if the conditions are right, fish can live well when undistubed or not cared for.  In the winter many people around here lost lots fish thinking that their pond was big enough and fish load low.  Things happen and some winters are colder than normal, and people lose fish that may have made it  past years.  My friend of many years who had very very large koi, gave them away a few years back to this golf course in town with a very large natural pond.  They had wintered their fish in that pond for years, then one year they just all up and died!    Maybe the extra fish load of additional new fish, and a extra hard winter, but they lost them all that year.  All I can tell you is I have seen many dead fish in other peoples ponds come spring in past years.   Some had a heater but no water movement, some just had a bubbler for air, and some did nothing thinking their pond was big enough.  I don't know of anyone around here who lost fish with a pond heater and good water movement like me.  So I can only conclude that other methods of wintering ponds here, in this climate,  can be risky.
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