what you need is a filter to remove the crud. I have a long veggie filter and feed
small amounts of high quality food and combined with a net to keep leaves out I have
nothing on the bottom of my pond .. well, some gravel they moved from the lily. my
koi stir up the bottom pretty well and the stuff gets sucked up into the filter and
dumped in the veggie filter. it is going on 4th year now with no mulm on the bottom.
Ingrid

(Jerry G) wrote:

500 Gallon pond, 10 goldfish, 2 koi.....and after moving some stuff
around the bottom of my pond yesterday.....lots of cr** on the bottom.
It looked like it was snowing poop flakes.

No bottom drain because the pond people kept telling me that I was
making this more complex then necessary when I was designing my pond.

Does anyone have any experience with the organic stuff sold on the
internet to get rid of the fish poo and sludge on the bottom of the
pond?

Are there any animals that live off of this stuff?

I'm really not lazy...I'm not, I'm not!

Is there an alternative to vacumning the bottom of the pond?



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