Thank you! Yeah, there’s lots to think about when it comes to ponds, that’s for sure!

Thank you! Appreciate it, and thanks for watching!! 👊

Haha 😂 thank you! I think they appreciate it! 😊

Thank you! 👊

Thank you! Yeah, I’ve used aquarium heaters in a pond before and it worked well.. Its starting to get pretty here now too, no snow yet though! 😀👍

Thank you! 😊

Thank you!

Thank you! 😊

Thank you! 😊

Thank you, mate. It’s getting pretty chilly now!

Thank you! Florida looks like a great place to be, especially if your into ponds!! Yeah, the waterproof boxes are good, i sometimes add an extra plastic bag or something over it as well, just as a bit of an extra precaution.. 😊

Haha, cheers mate.. I may have gone a bit over board.. I’m sure your fish will be fine! 😊

Exactly what you said. I do have heaters and keep the pump flowing. Turn off the waterfall and straight pipe it to the pond. Add some polycarb on top. To sum it up though, I feel terrible, compared to what Gingerfish did in his preparation. Hard to beat that that insulation, though!

Thank you! And defo being doing a Spring update!! 😊👍

Thank you! Yeah, I think having the air pump indoors would definitely help, having that slightly warmer air being pumped in. The heaters hardly turned on at all over the winter, but we did have a particularly mild one this year. We did have couple of days when it got really cold, so I think they must have turned on then. But, yeah, I think the insulation and the cover made a big difference, and really helped keep the temperature up.

Thanks mate 👊

Thank you!

Thank you!! Wow, -20°F, that is cold… 🥶

Haha, awesome.. hope the video helped!

@@GingerFishyOfficial definitely. The pipe insulation is a good shout. Didn't think about that

Thank you! Yeah, that was something that had crossed my mind.. I do tend to check the water temp most days, even in the winter as I have to walk past the pond to let my chickens out in the mornings, so I keep a close eye on it. And if I do think it’s going to be a particularly sunny winters day, I’ll take the front part of the cover off. Nice to get a bit of air in there too! 👍

@GingerFishyOfficial you have to be like a scientist now days monitoring the climate especially if likes ye good self keeps fish and chickens, cold winter winds can chill the water quickly dropping temperatures, the air stone bubbles will allow surface movement so ull get no ice... because ur ponds not sunkin into the ground, but raised and insulated there won't be any trouble with ground frost... to be fair climate changes have a more warming affect than a cold affect so u might not need a cover this year in fairness, Britain's becoming more tropical

Them floating heaters do look good.. i probably would have gone for one of them, but decided I wanted to try and keep the pond temp a little higher this winter 👊

Hi Suzanne! I hope your pond and fish are all doing well!! Yeah, the pond vac defo comes in handy! The Inkbird thermostat I use is the Inkbird ITC-308, just the basic model. It’s quite simple to use. You just plug the heater into the inkbird thermostat, put the temperature sensor in the pond, and it will then turn your heater on and off depending on what temperature you set the inkbird to. What sort of pond heater are you using? 😊🐟🌿

@@GingerFishyOfficial Thank you so much , I will write all of that down. I must buy the same pond plants that you have in the spring , as a lot of mine have died. I will have to use floating baskets as I made my pond too deep. All of my 16 goldfish are very fat and looking extremely healthy which is wonderful . I have a 1200w heater in at the moment but it is set at 15 C as I had a few baby ,fancy goldfish and didn't want to risk their health. Next year I will turn it down to 10 C and use an inkbird like yourself. I have a canister filter at the moment but I am going to make a bog filter as well for next year out of a whisky barrel. ( I am not as talented as you otherwise I would use a bin and make a wooden cover for it ) . The surface cover I have over my pond is blue , plastic balls. The same type that are used on resevoirs. I am looking forward to your next video. Happy fish keeping. 😊😎🐢🦎🐋🐟🐠🐡🦋🐝🐔

Yeah, I’m a bit worried about how much it’s going to cost.. I’m hoping it won’t be too bad though.. a couple of years ago I heated the old pond, and I used the same setup (2 x 300watt heaters, connected up to an inkbird set to 10°c), and that wasn’t too bad, and although that pond was smaller, it was way less insulated. Just hoping for a nice mild winter! 🤞

The fish will estivate and slow their metabolism is colder weather. They will eat less and poop less. It doesn’t need to bee as warm as summer time for the fish to stay healthy. Check with your local experts, like a pond store or local botanical garden that keeps fish, but its ok for them to have a cool season. As long as they have open water and water movement for oxygen.❤

-25C is pretty chilly… I’m not too sure to be honest, I think it might struggle. The lowest its been here this year is -9C (just for a couple of days), and it handled that fine, in fact the insulation has worked so well the heaters are yet to turn on. But yeah, not too sure how it would handle -25C

Hi mate, pond update coming soon!! Bog filter is going well.. a bit of watercress got in there though and has taken over a bit, so will need a trim back soon! Can’t wait for some warmer weather, really hoping we have a nice summer this year! Good luck with your rebuild!!

@@GingerFishyOfficial I've never tried watercress, looks like it does really well for you! My iris have just started coming through. My bloody pump conked out at the end of the season last year, bought a cheap pump and a tub from halfords to knock up a makeshift internal filter, while that's running I thought I'd do a rebuild on the bog, try and fix those things that have annoyed me over the years, so I can make whole new mistakes 😂

@@matthewsmith22 yeah, watercress has always grown well for me, and its great as a natural filter, but it can become a bit invasive if you don’t trim it regularly..

In the summer/spring

Thank you! I think if there was to be a really bad storm coming I would put it back into its winter mode, maybe with some extra bricks to hold down the cover. I’m in the UK though so we don’t tend to have anything too bad, but depending on where you are, and how bad your storms can get, you could potentially screw down the cover until the storm has passed. Hope that helps! 👊

Your awesome, thanks

Im in the east coast U.S so winter are a lot like yours

Thanks mate! Yeah, I did think about a 500w heater, but decided to go with two 300w instead, just in case one breaks there’s still a bit of heat going in there. But like you said, maybe if I paired a 500w with an ice breaker, that would be less of a concern..

@@GingerFishyOfficial nps only time will tell.. you could only silicone a polystyrene board under bin lid.

That many goldfish isn’t at all reasonable for an indoor tank

Okay then a less small tank.

Battery replacements for those are cheap.

Yeah, I’ve had a similar one running on the old pond that I left on all the time, and it lasted about a year before having to replace the battery. 😊👍

ohh nicee, did you set the temp on the 2 heaters the max or how much did you set it for the big pond@@GingerFishyOfficial

All going good thanks, bro! The insulation is working really well.. but it is looking like temps are going to drop a fair bit lower over the next couple of weeks though.. but I’m confident everything will be fine. I’m currently just doing a bit of a makeover on my little fish room.. the video should be out in the next couple of weeks, and I’ll probs add a little pond update into that video! 👊

@@GingerFishyOfficial ok looking forward to seeing it

As in a swimming pool? Probably not.

One day!

That pond not big enough for koi unless you only have 2