How Can I Get Rid of Green Water
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dannyboy;488108; said:
The above advice rocks!
When in doubt always go natural. UV sterilizers, salt, algaecide and snakeoil all have their place but we all know that well established and balanced ponds stay clear on there own with out the benefit of massive water changes and excessive meddling.
By keeping as much biodiversity as possible, your pond will stay relatively clear. Water that is too clear is too sterile and that can create other problems. Thats why I would stay away from UV unless there was a disease problem and even then only for as long as it takes to sort the disease out.
A lot of green water problems in ponds and even tanks, are caused by a proliferation of a single celled protist called euglena. They are too small be filtered out unless you use a diatom filter so dont waste your time fiddling with the pond filter media-let it get a good microbe population undisturbed. See link about euglena;
http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/euglena.htm
As in the quoted message above, daphnia go apesh** for them and their population will grow very rapidly. Now your converting a problem into free top drawer fish food. At some point a natural balance in the euglena and daphnia population will happen with the water being noticably clear.
Cool daphnia link;
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag...oscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar02/fleanatomy.html
Euglena are awsome food for egg layer fry by the way. Ive had luck growing them with a mixture of old tank water from gravel cleaning and discus buffer salts by seachem with lots of light and low aeration.
The only things that have worked for me (avoiding diatom filters, uv, and algacides), are shading the pond with trees or shade cloth, and adding higher plants, potted lilies, cattails, etc, and floating plants such as water lettuce work wonders and can also be placed in a seperate trough that the water is pumped through.
The pond is clear now, I can see to the bottom, but there is hair algea in there know. I've been taking the hair algea out with a stick and have stopped feeding the fish and just let them eat the algea.
great looking pond how big is it and is that two different pond liners, what size is each and how did you connect them? i have two 250gallon pond liners and would like to make them into 1 - 500gal. pond . so any info will help in building this project
It's a molded pond not a liner. The water gets pumped from the bigger part into the smaller part and then the water goes from the smaller part into the bigger one via waterfall. A idea for you would be to make one pond from one of your liners and then have a punp pump the water into a second pond made from your other liner. Have the second pond a little higher up then your first one and have them connected with a waterfall.
guppy;510703; said:
agreed...before i put up my patio umbrella my pond would get massive amounts of sunlight. once i put the umbrella up it made a huge difference.
how many hours of sunlight is your pond getting???
