Water Gardening: Pond warmers, 0 by Oberon46

Oberon46 wrote:
Bless you snapple45! The sounds like what we are going through. I am really praying that it is so. I just can't see that having my husband walking in the pond on top of the gravel, with vinyl liner and felt beneath that, or that being very aggressive with the pond vac could dig a hole in the vinyl. We didn't have as much snow cover this winter up til about two weeks ago so between running two deicers, wind, normal evaporation, etc it could account for it. We have filled 'er up probably four times now. I worry that with the drop in water level I am compressing the gases etc in what water remains and affecting the chemical levels. I haven't checked it this winter for the first time but guess I better. I am hoping with the frequent (in essence) water changes that it is keeping the water and therefore fish healthy.

The shot of the pond was spring 2010. There is a hose in the upper left quadrant pouring water into the pond. Deicer is lower left. You can see a little black spot in the upper right that is the hose curling around the pond and into the dry waterfalls. Sometimes the water splatter would freeze and eventually build a little ice tunnel to the pond but it did keep it open. If you look closely at the straight line of the black area at the top there is a black shovel handle sticking over the pond. We draped the power cord to the deicer on it to try to keep it out of the ice. Otherwise it freezes in and when the water level drops the deicer hangs up above the water. Not too helpful