Fall is always a busy time. Between work, the last koi shows, getting the garden ready for winter and thinking about bringing the koi in for the winter – we barely have time to watch football and the new fall series on TV. This weekend we caught up on some of our tasks. Winter POOL…
Category: Winter Pond
You win some and you lose some
….but the Pond Digger never gives up on the koi if they look like they might have the smallest spark of life. Our koi that stayed in an indoor garage tank and developed a pop eyed was definitely dead when we returned from a 24 hour trip to Iowa. Zuzu’s two tank mates seem fine…
Where is Hato?
Haven’t been posting much since winter basically had us in a deep freeze. This weekend the pond digger announced that winter was over. The temperatures have been above 40 and will be going up to the 50s this week. The outdoor ponds are beginning to melt and the indoor koi seem to be little more…
Taking a peek into the outdoor winter pond…
It’s warming up a little bit in Minnesota and today the highs are in the 30s. Indoor koi land has been smelling up our garage. So it was very nice to be able to do a really healthy water change and to wash out the filters. Garage smells 100% better. I threw in 6 pellets…
Into the Garage (for some…)
Is laissez faire care system better? I sometimes think so…. Last year we lost one koi and almost lost a second in the winter pond. We also did very little to the winter pond – no water changes, no filtering – pretty much left an aerator on and took our chances. In preparation for this…
Not much happening in the winter pond…
The winter pond has been frozen for a few weeks now. The ice has gotten four to five inches thick and the filtration system ended up freezing even though it was in a little greenhouse. This past weekend, the temperatures were up to the high forties (spring temperatures!) so we did a little work. We…
The Pond Pyramid
I was a little behind the power curve and cold weather came in with some snow and very cold temperatures. The winter pond had a thick layer of ice on it by the time I finished my pond pyramid. It ended up being made out of PVC piping and 8 mil sheeting. While it was…
The Polar Vortex Returns
…or as Jimmy Fallon commented last night, we used to call it November. The weather forecasters had 8 to 12 inches of snow coming our way on Monday and we might have gotten 2 inches. The air temperature is pretty cold now and we’re heading for a stretch of single digit lows. I guess we…
Winter storm Astro is on its way…
The weather terrorists are forecasting lots of heavy snow tomorrow. I’m hoping for less than 8 inches and wish the post storm temperatures will not be as cold as predicted. We have drained lines, pulled up pumps, put away the pond stuff and generally gotten much of the yard ready for winter. We did a…
it’s really feeling like winter is around the corner
We have been busy all week making sure the pond and garden were ready to host the Upper Midwest Koi Club meeting on Saturday. The weather was a little chilly with a number of cold nights – including one with a forecast of snow showers. Saturday came looking pretty nice and the pond digger was…
Preparing the winter pond
On the last weekend of summer, the pond digger is busy again re-doing the lower pond. This seems like the 50th time we’ve redone this pond but I think this with be the 5th true variation on this spot. The new pond is deeper, sports a larger bottom drain and will be the winter home…
Getting ready for winter (yes, this is Minnesota)
Today another koi club member came to take a look at the koi and offer some advice on a winter pond. Another koi club member had thrown out the idea of a hoop house and we are leaning very much towards a hoop house over our small pond. Of course there are some things we…
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