"john" wrote in message
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hey everyone.. i was wondering if you could take a look at these pics i
just took of my pond.
http://thenyscene.com/pond/1.htm

last year i had the same problem... green water.
I have narrowed it down to the following possible problems:
- Too much water flow
- Not enough water flow
- Not enough plants (although its only april here.. and still goes down to
the freezing point at night)
- The pump is too close the bottom (collects muck and spreads it through
out the pond)
- Not enough shade

any words of advice?? thanx!!!!
John


Lift the pump off the bottom, place it on one or two bricks so it's not
sucking up the muck, although that doesn't look like the root cause. One way
to test this is shut the pump off for a few hrs and see if the stuff settles
out.

Once it warms up, consider adding water hyacinth if legal in your state, or
water cress. Add water lillies to shade the pond.

How many fish do you have, maybe there are too many for the water plants to
filter out the muck.

UV filters is an option.

Good luck,
-S