Steve,

You might try a vacuum system that sends the material outside the pond, like
a shop vac, or one of the hose end vacuums outfitted with an exhaust hose to
cause the discharge to go out of the pond rather than through the little
sock net. If it is heavy enough to not move to the filter readily, and yet
loose enough to create clouds, I don't know of any other way to get it.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html


"Steve J. Noll" wrote in message
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On 02 Aug 2003 21:47:40 GMT, ESPMER (K30a) wrote:


Could it be dead algae from the UV?

It's much larger than pea soup algae.

Maybe it will eventually turn brown?

It's alive and well.

Have you heard of the 'garbage can filter'?

Route the water through the top of a garbage can full of
quilt batting, old clothes, bedding (something along those lines) with a
hole
at the bottom. and see if you can 'strain' the stuff out.

Even though there's more than the recommended water flow in
this pond it's not enough to sweep much this stuff into the pump
so that it could be run thru such a filter. Plus, his current Tetra
filter is not all that much different from what you describe - it has
a couple batting-type pads that could filter this stuff out if you
could get it there. Plus, it clogs for pump foam filter before it
ever gets to the Tetra filter.

k30a



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