It takes light and nutrients to make most types of algae
grow..........remove any of the above and it will retard the growth.
Most times just adding more plants to utilize the excess nutrients is
sufficient. Adding more aeration also helps. .Your going to have to
run a filter if you expect to catch any dead algae. Lock up the
phosporous so the algae can not use it and most of the algae will die
off........Aluminum sulphate will do this quite effectively......I
personally would not worry about any algae unless its the string type,
as it is beneficial to a pond and the fish. Just my take on algae.


On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:56:27 -0400, "pixi" wrote:

===My pond is full of algae. I have tried algaecides (or whatever it is
===called}. In a pond about 12 x 14 feet and maybe 3 feet deep in the center
===I have three waterlilies, 3 arrowheads, two bullrushes, two irises and about
===20 anacharis plants. Also a few parrot feathers. Have a biological filter
===and a skimmer. Also have a huge (about 12 " in diameter) ball of barley
===straw. And still I have algae.
===
===There are 12 goldfish which I rarely feed and the algae was there before
===the fish. There are four frogs that I know of.
===
===So what am I doing wrong. The pond does receive full sun all day (when it
===isn't cloudy, that is).
===
===Right now I am reluctant to run the waterfall which runs the filter and
===skimmer because I have a very few baby fish and don't want to hurt them.
===Most of my goldfish are at least five years old and for some reason there
===was only one or two little fish that made it to an inedible size in my pond
===down by the woods (where I never have algae). Anyway, I need to replenish
===my goldfish supply before they start dying of old age.
===
===Incidentally, the two little fantails were transferred from a 10 gallon tank
===to the outside pond and are doing fine. No sign of fin rot.
===
===Will appreciate your comments.
===


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