Bloody lucky.

[Guest Ferret1959]

Nearly lost my fish yesterday.

Pump blocked solid and no movement in the pond. :confused:

The poor fish were gasping for air on the top, one nice carp even made a break for freedom and was jumping about on the pebbles around the pond.

 

So a warning to all you pond keepers,keep a watchfull eye on you pumps and filter systems. :cool:

God knows what would have happened if I had been away on holiday. :confused: :confused:

[Apache]

My pump packed up the other week so I spent 4 hours digging up 30 feet of cabling to find that a flaming mole had eaten through it and shorted it out.

 

Not impressed.

[Guest Ferret1959]

How was the mole????????

[Apache]

After experiencing the same sort of voltage that death row inmates usually do, i would guess very dead indeed. I never found the bugger.

 

[ 01. July 2004, 10:51 PM: Message edited by: Apache ]

[davidP]

Ferret1959:

The poor fish were gasping for air on the top, one nice carp even made a break for freedom and was jumping about on the pebbles around the pond.    

I had a session about a fortnight ago during all that really hot weather where despite the pump going flat out the fish were all gathered under the pump outflow and gasping at the surface. What I did was get an aerator pump and put a couple of airstones into the pond. The difference was astonishing - within 30 minutes the fish were feeding like crazy and were more active than they had been in a month.

 

What I've also done since is buy a new pump and a pressurised filter. When I install them I'll make sure there's a really good jet of water back into the pond to keep a good water movement going at all times. I'll leave the aerator going as well as they realy seem to like it.