I guess we will see. Mine has been inaccessible with the ATV to plow it, and too difficult to shovel off. Ice is at 11” thick with 4+” of snow on top. Hardest winter since we had the pond dug. Three weeks now under snow? 4 weeks of locked ice. We have a trickle of water coming in bearing O2, but that is mostly frozen shut.

I have a heater in the garden pond to knock a hole in the ice. It is costing me a lot in electricity to run it as it’s 750W and too cold out for it to toggle off. But it must be the only open water for some distance as the animals are drinking a lot of water from it!

Last edited by liquidsquid; 02/04/26 11:24 PM.