[Vogata]

Lets start up with the autumn witch always come around. Due to normal weather we don’t look that much at the calendar at all. Sometime in the course off September – November the temperature will start to fall usually it lingers around 16-13°C for some time before plummeting down. It’s the time when the cold take hold off the high grounds and give us 7-4°C in tap water. In a mirror of 1-2 weeks we bring the Nishikigoi inside. From/to ~10°C. We start raising off temperature start immediately up to over 26°C witch is our hold temperature for 2-3 months. All in all they have 5-6 months inside with us to play with. Even if the scenery is not the best, it’s nice sitting there in warm calming water while the check us out and beg for more to snack on.



Inside we have a 13 tons winter storage including ~2.4 ton filter. The unit is automated with small and frequent fresh water fillings. It’s also on a timer with full spectre lighting. If all goes well we will start with the new 20-ton indoor pond soon. And no its not just one household but two crazy neighbours that’s behind it.



Some time in spring April –June the weather will again turn to give us green winter and we take the Nishikigoi controlled down to meet the raising pond temperature. At 13-15°C we perform the swap. Normally the temperature rises to above 18°C in just weeks by it own. They will now spend the next months outside in my green monster of 50 tons before coming inside again. It’s the same place my children learned to swim and I do as well.

Summer temperatures in outdoor pond can stay below 20°C all summer or go as high as26-28°C, but the last is not often.

Last summer we never got above 20°C and had 40 cm off snow in the middle of July (it went away in a couple off days main you). By the way snow in Mai is not unheard off just cold.



Any special parts that stand out feel free to pock (ask in Norwegian)