I did it..............I got the pump running! I played hookey from work yesterday afternoon, because I had the brilliant idea that I should melt the frozen pipe between the skimmer and the water fall box from the top. I filled the waterfall box with hot water with the usual less than encouraging result. Then I took hose hooked up to the hot water and watered the grass over the frozen pipe with it for about 40 minutes..............slowly I started to see a teeny current flowing into the pond and then a little more and a little more and .............voila, fish Mom's rock! The fish were afraid of the flowing water at first and hid on the bottom but I could see the murky water from the stream mixing with the pond water and they soon came to investigate. I spent the whole afternoon with a broom sweeping the crud of the stream bed and the shallows .......I had to clean the pump box filter 4 times. This morning it's -4C and there is only a couple of square feet of ice on one edge where normally the whole pond would have a thin ice coat.

I almost forgot to tell you, I have been seeing 'baby fish' nearly everyday lately, he's one of two babies I saw last fall and a few days ago he was hanging around an iris pot with 3 brown fry!

Yay!

That's awesome Sharon!!!!!! Unfortunatley, my Spring vanished. We had a lovely Easter blizzard and it is still at it this morning.

Thanks for taking the snow out of that blizzard for us............we're just getting the wind!

I added some salt to the pond on Saturday and it seems to be helping Raggedy Anne, I haven't seen her gulping for air or racing around the pond since. The 'pond guy' here seems to think she may have gill flukes, but of course we can't treat anything until it's warmer. Still no floaters, so everybody must be okay.

Spring? Oh, spring, where art thou? This is this AM in Genoa, Illinois, thirty miles south of the Wisconsin state line. It is supposed to be getting warmer. NOW THIS:




Don

This is from last weekend. Easter weekend. 'Nuff said about SPRING!!




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Derrick

R2D2 is that you at the road pondering about your aquarium?

C2

I think I was hoping a truck would drive by so I could throw myself in front of it by then!! LOL

Derrick

Oh wow...do you live in the Praries or maybe Alaska?

New Brunswick Canada. On the east coast. It has been a long winter....

<_<

Derrick

Dear Lord :lol: I'm moving south of New Brunswick (Maine) soon and I had no idea the east coast of Canada got that much snow. I love the snow but I hope Portland doesn't get quite that much.

Brace yourself! LOL...I live about 15 minutes from the Maine border!

Portland is actually a bit farther south, but they still get lots and lots! ;) ;)

Derrick

For all my Canadian friends it's supposed to be 60-65 and sunny this weekend. Yippie :P :P And since I have slave labor available this week end (15 year old daughter) the digging will procede. B)

You can't beat slave labor FM3 :)

Technically I think you can Tia. <_<

Like a rented mule.

I personally still prefer the "shirtless hot young guy" digging technique, but ya you have to take the help where you can get it!