Life is too short to put up with green water. Yes, it will "go away" if you
wait long enough. But a lot of folks have very short ponding seasons and
don't want to lose the time it takes. A properly sized UV will clear green
water in 3-5 days; a smaller one will still do the job, it will just take a
little longer. Or you can wait *weeks*, which may or may not work (this
season) anyway. Me - I'm into immediate gratification: I want it NOW GBG.

This is not intended to be a "put down" to those folks that want to wait:
many of the folks on this NG are into "natural" ponds, and green water is
part of that and part of the learning curve and joy of a "natural pond".
Also, those ponds that are out in the open offer more protection to the fish
if they are green, because it's not so easy for the predators to see them.
It just depends on what you want. By no stretch of the imagination could my
pond be called "natural": I designed it (poorly, I may add!) as a koi pond,
not a watergarden with fish. There's a very large difference. One of these
days when I win the Lottery, I will have both a "proper" koi pond and a
"natural" pond: the value and beauty of one over the other cannot be
compared. They are black and white, yin and yang. Both beautiful, but
different.

Lee


"Go Fig" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Just Me \"Koi\"" wrote:

I thought they go before so that your filter can filter out the dead ,
clumped algae.

Well it doesn't really clump algae together after its killed, and you'd
need a 3-5 micro filter to get it , which would last about 10 min in
most outdoor ponds. A sand filter with 500 lbs of #20 silica will pull
it out.

If they go after, then all the dead algae that clumps
together goes back into your pond to contribute more green water.

If you start it up in early spring, it won't go green in the first place.

For years here I always got the feeling that when I suggested UV, people
thought that was cheating.

I think I see a lot less resistance to them around here these days ;-)

jay
Mon, Jun 9, 2003




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