"GrampysGurl" wrote:
Is the water green or just the surfaces? The surfaces should get covered
in a
layer of algae, that's normal.... If the water itself is green, you need
50-75%
surface coverage as well as oxygenating plants and marginals.... if you
are
feeding your fish, stop for a while, they may not be eating it all and the
excess is becoming fertilizer for the algae, your fish will do fine on
thier
own; there is plenty *in the pond to feed them.


Good advice. However, there is one other solution. Become overrun by a
plague of tadpoles. They eat algae faster than a Hoover vaccuum. My pond is
so clean you could eat off it, and they really do.

BTW: I've quit feeding the fish for a while in the hope the they will get
hungry enough to have the tadpoles over for dinner. I suspect that some
natural statis will eventually be reached where the frogs, fish, and algae
all even out.


Michael Fermanis
New Orleans, Louisiana USA (Remove the RICE to reply)
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