wat are some good ways to get rid of alage besides jungul alage destroyer is there something i could put in my filter?
alage removal?
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the pond is pretty old and a green alagae grows on the sides of the pond i always have to drain it and srub and scrape the alage off and i have to take the fish out when i do this it is hard work but if there is some sort of filter media that destroys the alagae it would be much easierYanbbrox;3405864; said:
Ok I'm going to guess it's a blanket week problem not algae, even if I'm wrong and it's not blanket weed the same will work.cudamaster13;3408808; said:
Is the pond in direct sunlight? I'm quoting so I can't see your location but I think it was cali so if it is you have a lot of strong sun. Try to set up a pergola over the pond or grow a small tree near it to minimize the sun hitting the pond. Less light less algae.
Now like you say your draining the pond and refilling after scrapping the algae away, this is a wrong move. I'm guessing your refilling with tap water which is a big mistake, without boring you with the details tap water encourages algae growth as they grow on the parts of the water that have been treated at plant. This has nothing to do with adding 'prime' as that only breaks down chlorine. If you don't get much rain, add water via a water butt to store it until needed.
You can get chemical treatment which 'adjust' your water parameters so it does not encourage algae growth and therefore prevents it. If your emptying and refilling all the time your pond will never bed in and you will always be suffering from 'new pond syndrome' and never get to naturally settle, this process can take a couple of years depending on the size of the pond. I can't quote chemical treatments as I don't know what is available over there but I can recommend the natural treatments:
1. If your warm all year around a pleco could help, I'm not sure of the climate so I would say no, speak to memebers from your area.
2. Grass carp, they love this stuff and will eat it.
3. Know little about your circumstances if your warm enough, the best treatment for anything algae related in an outside pond is water hyacinth(anything of the genus Eichhornia), a floating plant that lives on the same nutrients as most forms of algae, at the same time it will bloack sunlight as it floats, without knowing more this it water I'd go with.
Good luck let me know how it goes, I need to find a video to show you, bare with me
That took a lot less time than I expected, Ignore the high spec filter element and see the water hyacinth at work:
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Not mine, but yes it's a very nice setupesparonisproud;3408985; said:
Mine is here and not finished:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=399259&d=1250963157
True hence I'm guessing.Muske;3410302; said:
Another thing I thought of was barley straw, as it breaks down it does the same thing to naturally adjust the water parameters.
Yanbbrox;3408865; said:
i always refill with tap water and then add aqua safe declorinater and yes my pond is unfortunately in full sun i am right now trying to use a barley pad from petsamart to see if it makes a differance
It will make a difference but the problem is it takes ages to break down, a good couple of months. My blanket weed is dieing off nicely but it's taken that much time to get there all that's left is sludge, thankfully my filters can handle it but it's still a pain.cudamaster13;3413568; said:
Next year I'm going to add straw in spring before the sun can grab hold. I never refill from the tap anymore and it does help, but we do get lots of rain.