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Moving the Pond Fish For the Winter
Hello, hivers!
About 2 weeks ago, I finally got around to moving the pond fish from their summer pond to my 100 gallon tank in the greenhouse for the winter. I have to do this every year because the pond freezes solid in the dead of winter due to the very cold temperatures we get at night during the winter. I was late getting it done this year because we had a warmer than average fall and I wasn't thinking about it.
This year, I decided to just pump the water from the pond into the greenhouse tank to fill it up. That way I didn't have to worry about water temperature differences for the fish, and it's the same water they've been living in all summer and fall. Also, I have to pump most of the water out of the pond to be able to catch the fish, otherwise they just swim away from the net. I ended up catching 9 fish to put in the greenhouse tank.
I made a video about the process and uploaded it to my youtube channel a week or so ago. This is the video, it's about 12 minutes long.
https://youtu.be/U2Y6j127ALo?si=IVxtbyAqXx4RFywJ
Thanks for stopping by my page and checking out this post. I hope you found the video interesting.
Replies (2)
Is that the same number that's always in the pond? I remember you moving them in previous years. And it was a very late fall season this year, but here in New England winter had hit hard and fast on December 1.
There's always a different number of fish that make it from spring to fall, nature takes it's course. Sometimes there's baby fish, and sometimes there's not. There weren't any baby fish this year so I didn't get any small ones. Also, I never know if all the fish in the greenhouse tank will survive the winter. It's not unusual to lose 1 or 2 over the course of the winter.