Bummer, Mike...

Water change is unlikely to help. Time (and maybe that UV) should do it.
Our watercress grew huge and effective roots. May your hyacinth thrive.

Have you any water celery? It too does the root trick.

Your veggie filter makes sense to us.

I wonder if you could consider shoveling dirt like planting plants...BVs
special approach could make your digging painless...even if the pond might
look sort of haphazard.

May you see bottm soon.

Jim

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"Mike Patterson" wrote in message
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I could sure use something that eats algae about now.
My pond is staying green so far.

It went from totally opaque to about 8-10 inches visibility and seems
to be holding there for the last couple of weeks.

Done a couple of 25-30% water changes, no help a-tall.

I'm hoping the water hyacinth gets busy and helps. The fish appeared
to be eating the roots, so I started feeding them a bit more a couple
of days ago.

Also got some watercress starting to take off in the waterfall, but I
know it won't be a big help. Looks nice though. Softens up the looks
of the rocks.

Trying to figure out how I could retrofit a veggie filter.

Fighting the urge to buy a UV sterilizer.

On the upside I have a couple of lilies that are close to reaching the
surface, and the fish seem pretty chipper.

With all my web research, reading this group for about 3 years & such,
I still feel like The Compleat NooB. Oy.

Even worse, I'm outta beer. Used the last of it planting the hyacinth.
Wonder if I can use Tequila for planting? Well, OK, actually, a
Margarita was what I had in mind. Maybe I can use some of the salt in
the pond. Maybe lime juice is the magic cure-all for algae. :-)


Mike Patterson
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