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Tue, Oct 18, 11 at 16:00
| Winter is coming here and are supposed to have our first snowfall Friday. Our night temps are dropping down to 18F but during the day go back up to 60F. I am impatiently waiting for the water to get cold enough to catch the fish to bring indoors a cold project. My pond is shut down for the winter and allowed to freeze. I am wondering if it would be of any benefit to use the microbelift autumn product in this scenaro? My plants overwinter in the pond including lilies but I bring fish indoors. Just wondering if putting microbe in now would help get the bacteria going in the spring which in my case is not until May. |
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- Posted by groundbeef (My Page) on Tue, Oct 18, 11 at 16:42
| No. They won't be active in the cold water anyways, and in all likely hood simply die. Save it for a couple of weeks before you reintroduce the fish in the spring. |
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| Thanks. The stuff is expensive anyways. Used some this year to seed the filters and I'm going to put some of the liquid stuff in my indoor pond Fluval filter to reseed when I bring the fish in next week. Happy ponding. Patti |
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