Moni_Pond
Fish Mom
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- Mar 12, 2022
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I have worked very hard this year to ensure I have a healthy beautiful pond for both myself and my fish babies (Rosies & goldfish) to enjoy. Last year we had a crazy hail storm in July that destroyed all of my plant life - it was 15 minutes of 3 inch hail. All of my fish survived, the plants didn't fare so well. It was very traumatic for the fish and they were in hiding for some time.
Fast for to this July, last night, and the temperature dropped over 20 degrees overnight and we got eleven inches of rain, declaring a state of emergency. My pond of course overflowed like crazy and had tons of debris. It also caused runoff dirt to get in and the water is now brown. (we also lost power and had water come in through the ceiling of our home even with our brand new roof that was replaced four days ago due to last years hail storm.)
When I got home from work tonight I worked until it was dark to clean out all the debris. Salvage plants that were knocked over as two large tree limbs fell into the pond, and tried to make things right. I separated all of my floating plants (lettuce & hyacinth) into floating rings so I could the skim out all the loads of debris from the oak tree, juniper tree, walnut tree and whatever else made its way in. Because of the overflow I found tons water lettuce that had washed out and I put them back into the water. My bog plants are all fine, some of my potted plants were washed away from their shelves and sunk (pickerel, black taro, forget me nots).
I'm not sure why I am posting this. I guess I am just wondering, as this is only my second summer with a pond, and to have two unprecedented destructive weather events back to back each summer - is this the norm? It killed me to have to be at work all day, knowing that my pond was in shambles and needed my attention. I feared that I would come home to a pond dead fish due to the influx of rain water and ph change. I did manage to get some baking soda into the water before leaving for work. ELEVEN INCHES OF RAIN within seven or so hours. Its just bananas!
Fast for to this July, last night, and the temperature dropped over 20 degrees overnight and we got eleven inches of rain, declaring a state of emergency. My pond of course overflowed like crazy and had tons of debris. It also caused runoff dirt to get in and the water is now brown. (we also lost power and had water come in through the ceiling of our home even with our brand new roof that was replaced four days ago due to last years hail storm.)
When I got home from work tonight I worked until it was dark to clean out all the debris. Salvage plants that were knocked over as two large tree limbs fell into the pond, and tried to make things right. I separated all of my floating plants (lettuce & hyacinth) into floating rings so I could the skim out all the loads of debris from the oak tree, juniper tree, walnut tree and whatever else made its way in. Because of the overflow I found tons water lettuce that had washed out and I put them back into the water. My bog plants are all fine, some of my potted plants were washed away from their shelves and sunk (pickerel, black taro, forget me nots).
I'm not sure why I am posting this. I guess I am just wondering, as this is only my second summer with a pond, and to have two unprecedented destructive weather events back to back each summer - is this the norm? It killed me to have to be at work all day, knowing that my pond was in shambles and needed my attention. I feared that I would come home to a pond dead fish due to the influx of rain water and ph change. I did manage to get some baking soda into the water before leaving for work. ELEVEN INCHES OF RAIN within seven or so hours. Its just bananas!
