Szpond wrote:
This year - Murky, pea green soup, floating algae, for the past 6
weeks. Plenty of plants.

4,500 gallons, could you describe your filter? How many plants is plenty?
Have you checked your water parameters/quality? What are those numbers
showing?

I also swear by the scarecrow sprinklers. I had a racoon hit me, granted he
didn't catch any fish amazingly, but he trashed the pond. I had a scarecrow
sprinkler installed ASAP and luckily before it came back and it never
bother the pond again. Other decoys I've used are the heron scarer plastic
fish, they seem to work well on kingfishers. I also have my old baby
monitor out by the pond and the receiver in my bedroom. Last night I
discovered by teenage son using the hot tub at 1am. Sheesh! ~ jan

See my ponds and filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

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