Soil/silt on bottom of pond - cleaned out last year. Water still
cloudy from extracting leaves, blanket weed etc.
Does it need cleaning out regularly - some fishponds seem to go on for
ever without cleaning.
Lots of pondweed plants etc.
John

Thank you for filling out the sick fish form, that explains a lot. Ingrid
hit the nail on the head, dirt bottom, bad water conditions.

I don't know which man-made ponds go on forever.... usually when not
maintained, cleaned bottom, refreshed water, things start to die in 3-5
years depending on fish load. The bottom needs to be cleaned every fall
minimum, and water should be partially removed and new added 20%
minimum/month.

On a pond that small, you might want to try a wet/dry vac to suck out the
muck (if you have one). They won't cloud up the water as much which release
H2S into the water, toxic for the fish. ~ jan
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