Pound Algea Nightmare

[Ocean Railroader]

I have a neighbor who has had a pound in her backyard which she has had for over 20 years and she had several Goldfish who where five to six years old. This June she spent $3000 dollars to have a small waterfall added to it by a local pound service company to it and a new liner along with several new rock features to it. The pond's new water fall is about 18 inches wide and 18 inches wide and the old 20 year old pond it was added to was about eight feet long and five feet wide and about around at it's deepest at two feet deep.

I saw the revenated pond around July and now around Sep it was all green and the 23 Goldfish that where living in it all died. And now she can't get the pond to turn clear again. So she called the pond company that built it they came over tested the water said that it was fine and drained the pond and then refilled it they then charged her $150 for their time and she put the remaining five Goldfish in. A week later the pond turned green again and her other remaning fish died and now her pond is still green and with no fish.

I looked at the ponds filters and the water is still flowing though them very good though a massic fabric filter from the side of the pond to the top with the small water fall. I was thinking that maybe she might need a large gravel sump filter maybe but I could really use your guys help with this one to help my neighbor at the top of the hill with her Goldfish Pond Alega nightmare.

 

[Yanbbrox]

I have a neighbor who has had a pound in her backyard which she has had for over 20 years and she had several Goldfish who where five to six years old. This June she spent $3000 dollars to have a small waterfall added to it by a local pound service company to it and a new liner along with several new rock features to it. The pond's new water fall is about 18 inches wide and 18 inches wide and the old 20 year old pond it was added to was about eight feet long and five feet wide and about around at it's deepest at two feet deep.

I saw the revenated pond around July and now around Sep it was all green and the 23 Goldfish that where living in it all died. And now she can't get the pond to turn clear again. So she called the pond company that built it they came over tested the water said that it was fine and drained the pond and then refilled it they then charged her $150 for their time and she put the remaining five Goldfish in. A week later the pond turned green again and her other remaning fish died and now her pond is still green and with no fish.

I looked at the ponds filters and the water is still flowing though them very good though a massic fabric filter from the side of the pond to the top with the small water fall. I was thinking that maybe she might need a large gravel sump filter maybe but I could really use your guys help with this one to help my neighbor at the top of the hill with her Goldfish Pond Alega nightmare.

With the level of algae your talking about it's it so bad it will drain the O2 from the water and generally clog everything up. The pond company was a total rip off, the pond is going through new pond syndrome since everything has been replaced everything is new and starting again, draining the system only makes it worse if you do not run tap water through a pre-filter.

Without boring you to death all the treatments that go in to tap water encourage algae growth so replacing the water will just make it worse, pond take a huge amount of time to mature.

You mention filters but go into detail, can you better explain more and give some good pond dimensions and pump size to give us a turn over rate?

Also can you tell us if the pond has a UV on it anywhere as this will kill it all off unless it is blanket weed and then you'll have to go down a different route.

Pictures will also help if you can, post back with more info and I'm happy to offer any further assistance.

 

[Yanbbrox]

Random post or looking for help?

 

[andrevilla]

With the level of algae your talking about it's it so bad it will drain the O2 from the water and generally clog everything up. The pond company was a total rip off, the pond is going through new pond syndrome since everything has been replaced everything is new and starting again, draining the system only makes it worse if you do not run tap water through a pre-filter.

Without boring you to death all the treatments that go in to tap water encourage algae growth so replacing the water will just make it worse, pond take a huge amount of time to mature.

You mention filters but go into detail, can you better explain more and give some good pond dimensions and pump size to give us a turn over rate?

Also can you tell us if the pond has a UV on it anywhere as this will kill it all off unless it is blanket weed and then you'll have to go down a different route.

Pictures will also help if you can, post back with more info and I'm happy to offer any further assistance.

He said it right. I think it could be random becuase he was using pound and pond and it was messing me up.