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Old 12-05-2004, 11:14 PM
joe
 
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Default algae

Congrats on the pond and welcome.

The algae along the edge is probably string algae. Your UV filter will keep
your water from turning green, as the water passes through the filter. This
will not dissuade the string algae as it doesn't go through the filter.

Joe

On 5/12/04 12:36 PM, "steven downie" wrote:

just built a new pond about one month old now,im now getting green algae i
think! floating around the edegs of the pond not alot but some.Is this
normal? im running a uv filter which i thought was meant to stop this,the
pond has six fish and some plants and is 7*5ft




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