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 Post subject: goldfish pond winter mightmare
PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:34 am 
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right this is how it started
the built in uv on my goldies filter popped and fried the uv and the unit it went into so i knew the cost of the build which is £30 i thought how chuffin much was the unit gonna cost so thought sod its october it will be fine till next year, how wrong was i all thought winter and covered had nothing but green water i left it while it was covered but it had to be sorted when i uncovered it bought a 9 watt tmc, so fitted it,cleaned the filter (which i was doing regular anyway)and a water change of 50 % and withing a week it had cleared up lovely woohoo
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 Post subject: Re: goldfish pond winter mightmare
PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:01 am 
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Brilliant Saph! the goldies are looking good too, what a difference a UV makes clap

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 Post subject: Re: goldfish pond winter mightmare
PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:16 am 
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the colours are ammazing surprising what a bit of pea soup will do for them

but never thought i would get algea in winter let alone the winter we had 6 weeks of snow and ice
everyone was telling me oh it will die off when the cold temps come
yeah right the bloody stuff thrived off it

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 Post subject: Re: goldfish pond winter mightmare
PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:38 am 
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the fish thrived too, I usually turn my uv off in the winter

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