Yes, we had a small pond in our garden in the Netherlands that always froze,
but the fish in it survived fine. I assume Florida fish are not used to living
under ice....
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Jan 14, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> What type of fish are they Chuck? They look like some type of "pan fish"
> (perch, crappie, red breast, etc.) but must be something unique to Florida
> since all of the previous survive the winter here at the bottom of the
> lake/stream. Perhaps the pond is too shallow. Too bad.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The pond out behind my place here in Palmetto, Florida and some of the
>> 45 fish that didn't survive. My rough guess on first discovering this
>> scene was that 20-30 fish had succumbed to the cold and that none had
>> survived. The next day I did a count and was surprised to find 45 that
>> hadn't made it. Most of the fish are about 1 foot long. Since
>> reflections keep me from seeing into the entire pond I think there may
>> actually be about 60. But I was surprised to find 5 live ones where the
>> day before I had seen none. Many of the plants are also in poor
>> condition. <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Winterset_pond/index.htm>
>>
>> ps: I got most of them but I was very frustrated by not being able to
>> completely remove the blue sky reflections from the water with my
>> polarizer in photo 2.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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