Water Gardening: Ponds 2013 - What's up?, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Well the Birdbath Pond just takes a switch to turn it back on. It is the deep pond where we overwinter all the fish and some of the water plants. We don't always clean it out. Every other year or so. It doesn't have a filter just a pump. The pump stays in all season long. The other ponds are all above ground Box Pond and Bathtub Pond and the new little one. Those ponds are pretty much cleaned in the fall since we empty them before winter. Over the winter we will get some water back in them from rain and snow. The pump/filters for those ponds come out in the fall. So it is just a matter of moving plants from the deeper pond and those stored in the Veggie Garden back into the ponds. They are also the ponds were the Trop. WL will be put back into. Makes it easier to pull them in the fall. Usually around late April early May. The fish that we have aren't very fancy. I usually just let what I have moved to the deeper pond and pick up some new feeder gold fish for the other ponds.

I was down at my son Josh's house the other day and his pond was ice free. He has some rather large and nice fish. I could see them just hanging there not quite awake yet.