"Weez" wrote in message
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Hi,
Moved into our house last year and we have a pond. Decided to get some
fish and some air plant things and it has never been the same since.
We've had really bad algae (which has now gone), and we have emptied
the pond, cleaned liner, everything, and we still have green water! We
have a pump, but at moment it is that blocked we are having to rinse
the filters every other day.

## How big is this pond? What type of filter are you using and is the pond
in the sun all day?

We've been told by different people that we need to put plants in it,
or get a UV filter. What kind of plants do you reccomend?

## Any kind you can find. Water lettuce and water hyacinth are fast growing
gross feeders that can and do starve algae out. Remove them as they take
over the surface. Compost them and use them in your flower beds or veggie
patch. Get potted pond plants as well. Search the web for "pond plants."

Will the
resolve the green sludgy stuff or will it stop it getting worse? What
sort of set up is a UV filter and are they all the scary prices that
you see them at in garden centres?!

## UV lights kill the algae which must be removed before it decays and turns
to smelly black mulm on the pond bottom. A good filter should remove most
of it.

I'm brand new to all this pond stuff, but I really like having it and
would love for it to look nice again!

## Google Ponds and you'll fine more information than your brain can
handle.

Even worse, the cat keeps
drinking from it and then being horribly sick in the living room - any
advice gratefully received!

## Why should the pond water be making the cat sick? Have you added any
chemicals to the pond such as algae killers?
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