Originally Posted By: SK.Luv2Fish
Originally Posted By: DonoBBD
Well ours worked its way through with out having to give it a poke. The odd thing is that there was some foam that is building up around the edge of the hole right after it broke through. The rain we had help open up the hole. 15"s of good ice on the pond and its open again. It is in 12 feet of water and only one air disk.

I was thinking that the foam could be from the dirt in the snow. I know from my hobby fish experience foam is 99% of the time protein in the water.

Cheers Don.


That's a niced size hole that formed!
I see much more foam initially and then it tapers off with time.


I guess I should have worded it differently. It may have been taken that the air station was just fired up. The hole did not cut through 15"s of ice. This air station has been running 24 hours a day 7 days a week since the summer. I do have 15"s of good ice on the other end of the pond, but had the open water drift over then the drift flash froze. Very hard snow over the open water that was still moving under the snow from the air station. We did get some rain that opened up the opening that was covered by the snow. I have about an 8 foot open hole in the ice now.

The foam has disappeared after about two days of the snow being gone from over the open water.

Cheers Don.

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