Winter GarDen pics with steam looks cool!

[screaminleeman]

I have managed to maintain 21 degrees celcius ~ 70F in my outdoor GarDen pond without having to cover it (yet). It has been one of the coldest Decembers that I remember in central MD, and January is just as bad.

The GarDen deck pond looks like a steam sauna due to the extreme difference between the water temperature and the air temperature. It just sucks that I am such a horrible photographer. Sorry about the quality (or lack there of) but enjoy anyway!

 

[screaminleeman]

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[yodaLBC]

Nice!

 

[xander]

haha looks awesome! loving the longnose gar

 

[SnaKeheAdSrAwSomE]

Nice!
How are you heating it?

 

[Divasen]

Very nice gars , whats that white fish in the pics?

 

[screaminleeman]

Very nice gars , whats that white fish in the pics?

It is an albino Channel Catfish. It is huge and heavy, but is permanently damaged. The LNG "surgically removed" one of it's two main "wiskers". I did not think that catfish could survive without the "wisker", but it has lasted over a year and grown 12+" since then.

 

[screaminleeman]

Nice!
How are you heating it?

When my Waterbed got utterly crushed and destroyed from horse-play wrestling body slams, I saved to heater after draining and discarding the rest of it. I built the GarDen pond into the deck out back of my house by my swimming pool. The waterbead heater was built into the base of the GarDen pond and in addition I have two 300W internal heaters in there.

The only challenge that I have experienced thusfar in this extremely cold for central MD winter is the incredible amount of evaporation that I am experience. I am forced to "add" water two to three times weekly!

 

[valderi123]

nice gar

 

[CLDarnell]

Beautiful set up! Excellent job

Do you have a generator handy? Man, I would hate to see you lose power even for 30 minutes during a bad storm!