"Thenewguy" wrote in message
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hey. this is my pond http://www.thehvscene.com/pond.htm
from all the advice ive been getting on this newsgroup my pond is slowly
but
surlely cleaning up.... it seems as if after the night when the pump isnt
running the pond looks clearer in the AM. than when it goes on ( the pump
supplys the waterfall ) through out the day theres a build up of floating
chunks of algea, and the water has less clarity. am i pushing to much
water
around? should i be running the pump throughout the whole day 24/7 ?

The chunks of algae float up during the day to take advantage of the
sunlight, and sink back to the bottom at night. The pumps have very little
to do with the algae becoming suspended. If the pumps are being run 24/7,
as they should be, and the intake is near the bottom, you will actually
catch more of the algae during the night when it settles back to the pump
intake, than during the day, when it is trying to float to the surface.
There is almost no such thing as to much water flow by the pumps. If the
current in the pond requires the fish to constantly fight the current, like
swimming into the waterfall, then they may need some reduction to be able to
sleep.
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RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html