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Mar 11, 2012 8:18 PM CST
Name: Ric
Cincinnati, Oh
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Seems Spring has Sprung here in Cincinnati.
Spent the day opening up pumps on the smaller ponds and moving the water garden pots and tubs into position.
Supposed to get some rains here tomorrow so we'll let Mother Nature fill them.
Then after about 4 hours of running the pumps we started netting the fish in the big pond and moving them to their Summer homes.

This Feature here, sorry for the bad shot all I had w/ me was a long lens, we call the Stack Pond.
The bottom is a 125 gallon stock water trough.
It is pumped to a filter, calf feeder, then overflows into a 60 gallon stock trough, overflows to another one, them back to the 125.
Problem is being above ground and not insulated they freeze pretty solid in most winters.
So the fish need to be moved every Fall.

BTW if you are moving fish do it now while the water is cool/cold.
They are VERY slow moving now and easy to catch...lol!

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