What is the best way to clean a pond without disturbing the pondlife?

Answer 1

Put in pond snails - they eat the green slime, and they have the cutest egg cases. I kept some in a jar indoors and they made great pets -no trouble at all. The babies are just like full stops when they hatch from the jelly pod but they scoot around just the same.

Answer 2

That depends on what you feel you need to clean?
Typically, a new toilet bowl brush - that you keep just for the pond - works well for the sides and then filter should filter any algae that you brushed off and you can just clean the filter. Remember that what you may think of as "dirty" may be beneficial and part of a good ecosystem in the building.
Otherwise, the pond - if naturalized and balanced, should not need cleaning.

Answer 3

the best way to do so is to try your best by cleaning the surface, try ur best not to go deep down into the pond where everything else blooms.

Answer 4

with large fish nets, scoop the bottom of the pond to pick up debris and leaves, then change half the water

Answer 5

Don't do it!

Seriously - add algae and oxygen and the pond will take care of itself.

Answer 6

let a slow flow of fresh water to it for few days and add some sucker fish to your pond

Answer 7

get some barley straw, tie it up in a bunch put it in the bottom of the pond..we did that and it works.

Answer 8

i think you cannot be able to clean it up without disturbing the pondlife..........you better isolate them first then carefully start doing your part...........

Answer 9

freeze it take out contents clean pond return contents!

Answer 10

just clean algi off with a net dont do any thing elese