Viktors winter garden

crkinney · Post by **crkinney** » 15 Dec 2010, 15:58

I like most of you love the pictures of Viktors summer garden,Do you think we could talk good old victor to take some winter pictures???

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 15 Dec 2010, 19:22

oh yes please Viktor! I would also really like that!

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 16 Dec 2010, 00:20

Guys, thank you for your interest, albeit you are too generous in your appraisals of our property. I saw this thread by an accident. I've not been on PC much in the last 8 days - my main toy, the basement pond, sprang a leak, so I've been building another pond next to it to temporarily house the fish so that I could drain the main one and patch it up. Hopefully, this I will document this endeavor on my (inappropriate) ad page.

I will comply with your requests too, although we got ~2-3 feet of snow in the last 10 days. It is mostly white out there

Stand by...

nvcichlids · Post by **nvcichlids** » 16 Dec 2010, 23:26

where is the original post of the gardens of Viktor.. I cannot find the thread.

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 16 Dec 2010, 23:33

here:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... 25&t=29488

nvcichlids · Post by **nvcichlids** » 17 Dec 2010, 00:03

Thank you for this. No wonder I couldn't find it lol... I agree, new pictures would be awesome!

BTW, when I get my place in April, will you come build me a pond Viktor?

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 17 Dec 2010, 14:41

NVcichlids, I think you were asking for this (or at least I think this is what CRkinney had in mind when he started this thread?)

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... it=+garden

I'd be thrilled to build you a pond even for free but my time is spoken for... not that things cannot change, just that they are not likely to change in that direction..

Andy, thank you much too - that's my "indoor" page - that's the basement pond that got punctured...

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 17 Dec 2010, 21:10

oh yes thats it!!! but there are a few shots of your outdoor ponds in the other thread also but this is THE one.

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 10 Jan 2011, 21:56

ok, patience is a virtue albeit I am afraid you guys will be disappointed - the glamor is long gone til May...

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Dee · Post by **Dee** » 10 Jan 2011, 22:38

What an incredible garden (both in Summer and in Winter)! I'm more than a little jealous, I'm so hopeless with gardening I'd never manage to keep something so magnificent in such good order.

It's also lovely to see bird feeding stations

crkinney · Post by **crkinney** » 12 Jan 2011, 15:34

YOUR GARDEN IS STILL A THING TO BEHOLD
Where are the fish?

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 12 Jan 2011, 17:23

Thank you, Dee and Crkinney! You probably mean koi and Co: you saw their "breather-hole" with a bubbler line wrapped in yellow glass wool in a couple of shots... they are in the ice- and snow-covered pond, on the very bottom where the water is the warmest at 4 C (at 4 C or ~39 F, the density of water is the highest and that is why fish overwinter at the bottom; important not to disturb that warm (relative to the colder water above) layer with your bubbler).

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 12 Jan 2011, 17:58

Jan 12, 2011. We got 1 foot in 24 h and another one is coming...

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 12 Jan 2011, 17:59

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 13 Jan 2011, 14:03

that's about 2 feet now...

kalija · Post by **kalija** » 13 Jan 2011, 16:58

Viktor - I just wanted to say hello from another Rochesterian - You have incredible ponds and tanks. Love the huge cats and the fact that you are giving them a good home!
~Karen

Viktor Jarikov · Post by **Viktor Jarikov** » 13 Jan 2011, 21:53

Thanks, Karen! Good to know there are PC Rochesterians out there!

crkinney · Post by **crkinney** » 14 Jan 2011, 18:24

You men there is more than one of you guys that live in that white stuff

kalija · Post by **kalija** » 15 Jan 2011, 01:41

Yes - imagine that! I am actually enjoying this latest round of heavy snow, cause my other half is planning a snowmobile trip for the weekend. This means uninterupted tank maintenance time for me - and maybe even a trip to the lfs!

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 15 Jan 2011, 06:15

incredible that they can survive? no heater?

stunning pics!

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