POND WINTERIZATION
The aerator is an important product that will
allow gas exchange and will supply the necessary
oxygen for fish to survive through the winter.
Aerator Install
- attached to pump (see illustration below)
Raise your pump up from the bottom of the pond
to a level just below the water’s anticipated
ice depth. This pump placement for the winter
will circulate only the cold water close to
the surface, not the warmer water below.
- Attach a small length
of tubing (4” to 5”) to the pump’s
discharge fitting as shown in illustration.
- Insert the aerator fitting
(hose barb) into the tubing making sure the
flow arrow (shown on the bottom of the aerator
fitting) is installed and pointed in the direction
of the flow. Direct the water flow away from
the fish. Cold water will transfer oxygen to
all areas of the pond.
- (a.) Attach the small 1/4" tubing to the small nipple on top of the aerator and then to the floating disk. (b.) Set the disc dial to full open and drape it over the pond’s edge.
- It is perfectly fine
if the pond freezes over, as long as the aerator
is injecting air below the ice. Gas exchange
will occur because the air will escape around
and along the pond’s edge. The ice will
protect the fish and at the same time insulate
the water from the extreme fluctuations of air
temperature.
- You may want to purchase
a cattle trough heater to be placed in the deepest
part of the pond. We don’t recommend the
floating type heater. The heater needs to be
plugged in only during extreme cold temperatures
. . . temperatures that are well below zero,
anticipated to last a week or longer. When temperatures
are above zero, unplug the heater. This on and
off procedure only controls the thickness of
the ice formation.
- If you need to replace a pump or check the ice depth . . . use hot water to melt a hole in the ice . . . never break the ice... The percussion will stress the fish and cause inner ear damage.
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