Hi
This is what I do in the winter, here in the south of the UK.
I leave my pumps running 24/7, 365 days a year, just one filter in each and UV bulbs still on. I have a largish plastic pipe junction in the bottom of each pond and the fish go in there for the winter and I only see them on warmish days. I turn the flow down so that there us enough water movement to prevent ice forming. We rarely get more than a sharp frost here, and it hardly ever lasts all day.
Last year I had 5 babies survive the winter, I didn't see them until the spring so they use have been in the large roots of a grass at one end of the pond. I only have one baby this year as I think the newts ate the eggs, and we also had a grass snake in the garden at one point.
Fingers crossed for a relatively kind winter.
This is what I do in the winter, here in the south of the UK.
I leave my pumps running 24/7, 365 days a year, just one filter in each and UV bulbs still on. I have a largish plastic pipe junction in the bottom of each pond and the fish go in there for the winter and I only see them on warmish days. I turn the flow down so that there us enough water movement to prevent ice forming. We rarely get more than a sharp frost here, and it hardly ever lasts all day.
Last year I had 5 babies survive the winter, I didn't see them until the spring so they use have been in the large roots of a grass at one end of the pond. I only have one baby this year as I think the newts ate the eggs, and we also had a grass snake in the garden at one point.
Fingers crossed for a relatively kind winter.
