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Pond De-Icer System - Winterize
a Pond and Keep Fish Safe
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Keeping your fish safe in winter / Winterizing USA Pond
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Way to close or to keep open your backyard pond -
Outdoor pond heater - Pond bubbler for winter |
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Pond De-Icer Ssystem |
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How to Deice a Pond
Winterizing Water Gardening
Idea |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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I start up my pump support with:
- 1 Large plastic pot (green here) 24 inches
high and 22 inches in diameter. (Will be used to support the pump, such as a
table in the bottom of the water). The opening of the pot touch the bottom of
the backyard pond.
- 1 Pond plant basket black hole of 12" X 12"
in which I add 2 inches of gravel. Make a hole in the side of the basket to get
in the pump wire. |
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Backyard Pond Pump as a De-Icer |
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Pond De-icer
Pump as a pond de-icer |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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29 October 2007:
It is snowing and the water garden already beginning
to have a thin layer of ice.
This is the signal to install my Pond
De-icer system. My pump Beckett 3500 gal / hour is ready for the winter.
I'm surprised of the quality of the pump is
reliability.
This pump is used to do a dome of water that
allow the movement of water which ensure the survival of fish. |
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How to build a water garden de-icer |
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Water garden De-Icer
Winter Fish Care |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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The basket is arranged and fixed on the
big pot
with wire. |
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DIY Pond De-Icer |
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How to build Pond De-Icer
DIY Pond De-icer |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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Stones to stabilize the submerged pump. |
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Winterizing Pond |
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Winter Fish Care
Winterizing a Water garden |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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The water is very cold (early November), I
made a bridge with an aluminum ladder system to put De-icer in the water and not
to freeze. Julius supervises the work. |
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Water garden De-Icer |
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Water Garden De-Icer
Water Gardening Winter Tips |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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Pump Testing. |
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How to winterize your pond |
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Backyard Pond De-Icer
Pond Winter Pump |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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Tips for winterizing pond in
hardiness Zone 3B:
I took my pump and removed the pipe that
leads to the waterfall. Then place the pump in
the deepest area of the pond at a height where
the jet could form a dome that protects water
ice formation on a portion of the pond.
My pump has a 3500 gallon per hour capacity
(Beckett W3500) purchased from Rona $ 225. The
pump should run 24 hours a day. The minimum
temperature in winter is -43 degrees celcius or
-45 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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Ice on water garden |
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Water Garden Deicer
Maintain a Backyard Pond
during winter |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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After a few years
the system works perfectly. In this photo,
the antifreeze system (De-Icer for pond) in
November. |
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Ice on Backyard Pond |
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Cheap Pond De-Icer
Home Made De-icer |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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The Garden Pond begins to freeze. |
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De-Icer Running |
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Pond Deicing Idea
Pond supplies |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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Plastic ring heating systems would be
useless considering the size of the pond.
Here we not only fighting against
evaporation toxic gas to fish having a hole
in the ice. We also fighting for the
thickness of the ice at -43 degrees Celsius
or
(-41 Fahrenheit).
Laguna company
about De-icer:
«Keep
an area thawed and open in the pond,
allowing the release of toxic gases from
fish respiration and decomposing organic
matter to escape, which is essential for
fish survival. At the same time it allows
oxygen to re-enter the pond.» |
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Water Gardening Tips |
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Water Garden Deicing Idea
Water Gardening Idea |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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The end of the creek I leave frozen winter.
There are no fish in this section
of the water. |
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How to keep kois safe during winter |
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How to Deice Water Garden
Build your own water garden
de-icer |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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In
summer, I use another water pump (Becket
5000 gal / hour) that goes to the second pond above
(200 feet) located here in the end of the
creek. |
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Hole over Pond Ice |
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Backyard Pond Deicer
Opening water area |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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Here is another picture taken on December 4,
2006
-20 Degrees celcius (-6 Fahrenheit).
The hole begins to close. |
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Winterizing Water Garden |
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How to keep your fish safe
Pond De-Icer idea |
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Winterizing your Pond
- Winterizing Water Garden: |
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Report on the state of my system to
23 January 2007 (hardiness zone 3b-4):
Several days under -25 degrees Celsius
(-13
Fahrenheit) last week. A snowstorm left
30 centimeters of snow on
the garden pond.
Snow covers the hole open water eddies
generated by the pump.
In
Conclusion: I will adopt this system for the next
years with many fish this time. The two fish
are in the tank now, I can not see them, I'm
looking forward to spring to see if they are
still alive.
Conclusion winters from 2007 to
2012:
This de-icer system works wonders. No fish
mortality !
Fish still
alive after adding my own de-icer ! |
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