Pondscape.us - January 2010 - Pond & Goldfish Update
Channel: pondscape
Date: 25/01/2010

Just a short update on how our outside stock is doing in this freezing Chicago Winter :)

Also showing how we use a Whisper Air Pump (kept in doors with standard air tubes running outside, otherwise the pump would freeze up and then burn out) to keep the pond from freezing too badly.

Moving water will not freeze and any ice sheets will remain very thin with warm air from inside of the house bubbling up and hitting it.

Only northern species of fish (blue gill, gold fish, cray fish and the list goes on -- please search Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and many other sources for tons of instant information) can survive extreme cold like this, which is why only out Gold Fish have remained outside. All of our tropical fish -- such as sword tails, guppies, platties, red tail sharks, albino cory cats, silver dollar fish (and the list goes on) get to come inside the house for the winter where they can be kept warm.

Please let me know if this hyperlink happens to expire but the pump we are using it one of these: http://www.petfooddirect.com/product/12396/Tetra-Whisper-Aquarium-Tank-Air-Pump#utm_source=google&utm_medium=cse

TheTetra Whisper Aquarium Tank Air Pump
for aquariums up to 60-gallons (80734004) and Tetra Whisper Aquarium Tank Air Pump for aquariums up to 100-gallons (80734005) are both ironically suitable for our 5,000+ gallon pond, containing 400+ gold fish.

The reason this works is because it is outside and the temperatures moving above and below freezing, factoring in with the wind and other things adds its own oxygen into the pond anyways. Although with 400+ fish those suckers would be belly up if not for the extra air supply, let me assure you.

So we do have two air sources: the outdoor ecosystem and human influenced.

Made using Kdenlive on Ubuntu Linux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AzuSwyqks

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