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buellsfurn · Jan 5, 2018

ted76 said:
Go to TSC or Southern States for a floating stock tank heater, it will be half the cost at a Aquarium store.

30. bucks at tractor supply just replaced mine Tuesday. i don't have the bump ring set up i have stick with a y at the end and keep it off the the rubber liner. been doing this for 10 years now.Eleven years ago i lost all of my big money Koi when the ice melted they all came up floating

Mike · Jan 5, 2018

I use a low wattage birdbath type heater. It keeps an opening in the water. If you need more heat, a livestock water trough heater will do the trick. TSC, ebay, amazon... take your pick

Glaron · Jan 9, 2018

Please understand I have held this up for about 9 years now. I figured with my water fall and flow of about 100 gallons per min shit would not freeze. No Heater. I was wrong.

There are two open spots. Water fall, and the intake. Center is dead frozen. I decide to look... It was more brutal than I expected. Pond has 6" of ice, I mean im looking at 300+ gallons out of the pond locked in ice. Tis ok, Koi have 4 ft depth to hide. I never planned this.

Yes this pic is me brutally beating the center ice to get to water with a dirty rusty spade. I needed the exercise anyway.

DaemonAssassin · Jan 10, 2018

Glaron said:
Please understand I have held this up for about 9 years now. I figured with my water fall and flow of about 100 gallons per min shit would not freeze. No Heater. I was wrong.

There are two open spots. Water fall, and the intake. Center is dead frozen. I decide to look... It was more brutal than I expected. Pond has 6" of ice, I mean im looking at 300+ gallons out of the pond locked in ice. Tis ok, Koi have 4 ft depth to hide. I never planned this.

Yes this pic is me brutally beating the center ice to get to water with a dirty rusty spade. I needed the exercise anyway.

Tannerite is more fun. Oh wait, this is in MD. My bad.

J Beard · Jan 10, 2018

Glaron said:
I figured with my water fall and flow of about 100 gallons per min shit would not freeze.

Even Niagra Falls froze up last week

buellsfurn · Jan 10, 2018

Glaron said:
Please understand I have held this up for about 9 years now. I figured with my water fall and flow of about 100 gallons per min shit would not freeze. No Heater. I was wrong.

There are two open spots. Water fall, and the intake. Center is dead frozen. I decide to look... It was more brutal than I expected. Pond has 6" of ice, I mean im looking at 300+ gallons out of the pond locked in ice. Tis ok, Koi have 4 ft depth to hide. I never planned this.

Yes this pic is me brutally beating the center ice to get to water with a dirty rusty spade. I needed the exercise anyway.

beating on ice is traumatic to the fish something about the sound being amplified under the ice especially the pond surface

Glaron · Jan 10, 2018

buellsfurn said:
beating on ice is traumatic to the fish something about the sound being amplified under the ice especially the pond surface

Good thing I couldn't find the tannterite

Mike · Jan 10, 2018

Glaron said:
Please understand I have held this up for about 9 years now. I figured with my water fall and flow of about 100 gallons per min shit would not freeze. No Heater. I was wrong.

There are two open spots. Water fall, and the intake. Center is dead frozen. I decide to look... It was more brutal than I expected. Pond has 6" of ice, I mean im looking at 300+ gallons out of the pond locked in ice. Tis ok, Koi have 4 ft depth to hide. I never planned this.

Yes this pic is me brutally beating the center ice to get to water with a dirty rusty spade. I needed the exercise anyway.

Just put a birdbath heater on top of the ice and let it melt its way through.

If the pond is small enough, cover it with one or two sheets of exterior 1/4 thick luan plywood. That will help retain a lot of warmth.

wilcam47 · Jan 10, 2018

watch out for osprey.

eddiek2000 · Jan 10, 2018

wilcam47 said:
watch out for osprey.

We had a blue heron stop by this summer. SOB ate several of my fish and killed one for the fun of it.

J Beard · Jan 11, 2018

After a blue heron visit many years ago I put a net over 1 pond and closed my second.
Ate 22 fish and left 27 holes in the second ponds liner. 2 were fantails as big as my fist. :mad54:

wilcam47 · Jan 11, 2018

eddiek2000 said:
We had a blue heron stop by this summer. SOB ate several of my fish and killed one for the fun of it.

A guy I worked with had an osprey eat all his fish...got a easy meal but the owner wasnt too happy :innocent0

Glaron · Mar 17, 2018

Been a full year since this started!

I learned my pond can freeze. My Koi all survived. I need a heater, global warming.

It's another year. Where are your Koi? I can do a better pic, but I have other problems.

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