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my pond is now solely pumping around dirty water. i cannot find a local pond cleaning company, and regularly clean the pumps and the filters. short of emptying the whole pond out and cleaning it all completely, a relatively hassle free solution would be greatly appreciated.

2007-07-01 12:35:41 · 3 answers · asked by ? 3 in Home & Garden Garden & Landscape

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Ponds can be hard work sometimes. I just recently cleaned my filter out and a couple days later I still had a somewhat dirty pond. In the heat of the summer, alge can thrive. There are additives you can add to your pond, some may be in powder form or tablet form or even in liquid form that can kill the alge but not the plants or fish in your pond. These additives can help clear up your pond and make it look really nice, but you may have to add more every once and a while. Just make sure if it is harmful to fish or plants you may have in your pond.

2007-07-02 01:13:00 · answer #1 · answered by jasonlahr2 2 · 0 0

Some places rent electric Pon Vac's
Example below
http://www.southtexaswgc.org/equipment.html
Along with that I would use some
Purpose and Benefits:
Pond-Zyme Plus is a heavy-duty pond cleaner, containing five specially selected bacterial strains in a stable dry form. Pond-Zyme Plus breaks down fish waste and dead algae that can cause cloudy water, sludge build-up, and debris that clogs pumps and filters.
http://www.watergarden.org/s.nl/it.A/id.197/.f?partner=WG
Sometimes it just pays to make the investment, which is what I did.
http://www.pondsupply.com/product428.html

2007-07-01 13:53:39 · answer #2 · answered by LucySD 7 · 0 0

the biggest to healthy, sparkling water is to attain a stability between the countless inhabitants. The flora abaorb mineral salts and carbon dioxide from the water and, interior the presance of sunlight, creare nutrition factors and oxygen. The fish take up oxygen and launch carbon dioxide by their gills; different than for his or her aesthetic allure they feed on such pests as water lily beetles, mosquito larvae, aphids and caddis fly. in addition they fertilize the flora with teir excreta. so long because of the fact the flora - somewhat the submerged oxygenators get loads of sunshine and could compete for minerals, the microscopic algae that make the water murky could have little hazard to thrive. on the different hand, there should not be too lots mild on the challenge of the kind of oxygenators. it relatively is important, subsequently to paintings out the huge sort and length of the swimming pools inhabitants. There won't be able to be too many under water oxygenators, especialy interior the 1st 365 days or 2; after that any surplus may well be bumped off. yet floating and deep water aquatics might desire to in no way cover greater effective than a million/2 the swimming pools floor, with the intention to no longer create too lots coloration. Murky water shows that there are to few under water oxygenating flora to compete for the available mild and minerals, or that too little coloration is forged by water lilies. perfect those motives of imbalance, and then if mandatory use permanganate of potash to sparkling the water. Make a saturated answer by shaking the crystals in a jar of water untill the crystals are dissolved. Stir in a maximum of one tea spoon 5ml, of the soloution for each 50l of pond water. the water shouldn't turn greater effective than a dwindled pink and could sparkling away in some days, repeat later interior the season. expert Gardner for 30 ordinary yrs, (talk approximately aquatics). digital mail me in case you want to any extent further suggestion.

2016-10-03 09:05:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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