Hi! I'm new to this so bear with me. I have a small pond, 165 gal. It's my little piece of heaven, but right now its pea soup green. I just placed barley straw in, plus clay. here's hoping. its lots more fun when you can see the fish!! I live in Pittsburgh, Pa. The weather is still cold.
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- Thread starter Dianna
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Ok you've got options. Barley straw will work but if it's pea green your going to need to do something else.
I'm posting blind here as I know not what filters, sunlight is involved.
1: Drastic I know but cover the whole thing, it'll kill off any algae in there but it'll still needs filtering out.
2. Add a UV will keep on top of the problem and do the same as one but still needs, filtering out.
3. Get hold of some heavy duty filter media, really fine and thick stuff, set up a pump to run over this media and it will clear out the algae, I've had to do this years ago a couple of time on my dad's pond, this will need cleaning daily until the water clears.
Good luck, pm me if you need more help
I'm posting blind here as I know not what filters, sunlight is involved.
1: Drastic I know but cover the whole thing, it'll kill off any algae in there but it'll still needs filtering out.
2. Add a UV will keep on top of the problem and do the same as one but still needs, filtering out.
3. Get hold of some heavy duty filter media, really fine and thick stuff, set up a pump to run over this media and it will clear out the algae, I've had to do this years ago a couple of time on my dad's pond, this will need cleaning daily until the water clears.
Good luck, pm me if you need more help
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View attachment 352376welcome to MFK... and go straight to our forum on outside ponds for help.. that forum will help you for sure..sounds like you did the right thing so far but also need to know the dimentions and filtration and occupants etc... nice to meet you... if you have any questions getting around MFK just ask me... i will lead the way...welcome again...
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View attachment 352376welcome to MFK... and go straight to our forum on outside ponds for help.. that forum will help you for sure..sounds like you did the right thing so far but also need to know the dimentions and filtration and occupants etc... nice to meet you... if you have any questions getting around MFK just ask me... i will lead the way...welcome again...