Haven't done much with the pond lately, but I decided to flush the little bit of accumulation out of the bottom of the settling tank. Just had to take care of one thing first.
Winter pond maintenance
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Great tunes.
How the hell did he get in there?
How the hell did he get in there?
I think I heard him go "brrrrrr! It's cold out here!"
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Awesome
He, or rather she, slipped in through the 3" bottom drain in the pond. I would have left her in the settling tank but I wanted to flush it and didn't want to take a chance of her getting stuck in the drain which is only 1 1/4"
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He looked fat and healthy and had a warm place to vacation for winter and you destroyed his vacation
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Your filter room makes my pond look like a third world setup.
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Awesome video!
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Thanks for sharing! Your water is so incredibly clear!
It's a she actually. And she better be fat, we spent a small fortune on mealworms and cricket for our frogs this year.
If she finds her way back to the settling tank again I'll probably leave her there till spring. Once they (this includes the fish) are in there is no way they can get back to the pond without my help. By returning them to the pond it gives them a choice, if it was an accident getting sucked down the bottom drain and into the settling tank and they don't like it there when I return them to the pond they can hopefully learn to avoid it, but if they'd rather be in the settling tank, well, they know how to get there. And they do learn. First couple years I had lots of small fish ending up in the settling tank and the occasional frog. Now it's rare to find a fish in there and it seems the only time the frogs end up in there is in the winter or early spring when they are in their winter stupor and probably not thinking clearly.