…well, the UV filter did. It’s a long UV bulb that fits in a slot in the skimmer, and I’d changed the bulb a week ago and had it running. <\/p>\n
We’ve had a lot of algae, which means cleaning the filter every 3 hours or so, so we’d left the skimmer lid off. That’s one lucky break. Lucky break #2, we happened to be working right at pondside just 10 feet away, planting some items, when Jane smelled smoke and investigated. If we hadn’t been right there, we’d have had an electrical fire possibly spreading into the formed-plastic of the skimmer itself, and doing further damage, plus possibly blowing out the pump (not inexpensive!) and maybe killing the fish by electric shock. We have a gfi, but it didn’t trip: there’s a separate ballast involved on that light, and the disaster hadn’t gotten to it, yet. <\/p>\n
So for having a piece of bad luck, we were darned lucky on this one!<\/p>\n
I’ve put in a call to pondliner.com to see what can be done with the mess we’ve got. We need that uv filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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