Have you cleaned the leaves out of the pond? Brown water is usually caused
by Tannins (from leaves). Remove the leaves and do water changes....
20%/week. Do you know where your water quality parameters are? ~ jan

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:15:51 -0500, Folklore wrote:

I have a 500g pond in MN. Ice has been off of it for about 3 or 4
weeks now, 3 shebunkin are swimming around (when I can see them) and
today I yanked out the bottom filter/bubbler that I use during the
winter and started up the skimmer. The water is still really brown.
It seems that most years the brown stage lasted less than a week and
then it cleared before all the algae started to grow.

Any thoughts on this long brown period? Anything to worry about?

Thanks,

Folk...