Plexiglass… where you can make custom cut-outs for your filters, etc. This will also save you on water… in areas where water conservation is a concern… since any evaporation would collect on the plexiglass and drip back into the tank.
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Quite frankly, I would love to see some evaporation. Our temperatures have dropped and the fish are all thinking that summer was awful short. Lori
To: Ponds-Koi@yahoogroups.com; pondkeepers@yahoogroups.comFrom: waldan@suddenlink.netDate: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:40:53 -0500Subject: [Ponds-Koi] Evaporation
Well, it has been discussed before about evaporation. I found out over the past couple […]
Well, it has been discussed before about evaporation. I found out over the past couple days just how fast water will evaporate when the conditions are right. With my little 250 deck pond and normal weather here in the Texas panhandle I gave to ad water once a week or so to compensate for normal […]
Remember to do weekly PWC’s.. not just topping off. When water evaporates, it’s just the water.. not the nasties.. that is leaving the pond. When you just top off, you are not removing any of the nasties or diluting the nasties so PWC’s are still needed. Dilution is the solution to pollution!
Lenny […]
Good points Kevin.
An uncovered tank will lose an inch a week, or more, to evaporation. Of course, if you have coldwater fish, hopefully the room (ambient) temp is in the low 70’s so evaporation will not be as much of an issue. If the room temp is higher than the low 70’s, then […]
My reasons for using a lid. If you keep fish that jump. Heat loss from the water to ambient air. evaporation of the water. You can make a cover out of Acrylic sheets(hardware store). […]
There is no correct answer. Their are to many variables like, humidity, barometric pressure total hours of direct sun per day total hours of indirect sun. You would have to have a super computer from NASA to figure out the evaporation rate to figure the rate of drop and the way I see it is […]
HINT:
Let’s assume that your upper pond is exactly 3 times as large a surface area as the lower pond. And we disregard the connecting stream for ease of doing this problem. If there was evaporation of one inch, the lower pond would be lower by 4 inches - the total gallonage of evaporation […]
That’s exactly what I’m saying, but there is still evaporation and it depends on the surface area of the upper pond as to what it shows up as on the lower. I have a circulating system. Two ponds with 50ft creek and 2 waterfalls. The upper pond is 3 times the size of […]
Well, it drops 4″ in a month… However, if you were asking about volume, since the upper pond is flowing into the lower pond, it’s level won’t change - only the lower pond will have a change in “levels”
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