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Originally Posted by Another John
Yes - a popular topic. :-( I realise that this is a FAQ, but technology
changes year by year, and I'm wondering what the latest views are.
I'm currently cleaning out our pond, for various reasons, but one of
them is that I want to have a real go at the damned blanket weed that
invaded several years ago, and finally got the better of us a year or
two ago.
I have drained the pond, and I'm scrubbing at the liner with a hard
floor brush, in an attempt to remove as much of the weed as possible.
It's almost *im*possible: traces of the weed remain no matter how hard
I scrub.
I'm aware that many "treatments" exist (I tried one a couple of years
ago), but do any of them actually work? I'm always afraid that it might
do for other things as well as the blanket weed. The one that I did try
(Tetrapond Algofin) had little discernible effect.
I suspect that the consensus will be: "put up with it, and try to
remove it regularly" :-(
Cheers
John
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Hi John, further to the very good replies, being an angler and now wearing my fishing hat, you may be interested in trying the following !!
Alot of commercial trout fisheries suffer from poor water quality due to the high nutrient levels from the trout waste etc. They get around this eutrification problem (which causes the algae ) by throwing into the water a bale of barley straw, so if you could get a pillow sized parcel of barley straw in a carrot net and place this in the water somewhere, it would do the same for you. There is one very important thing to know !! you must use straw that has been grown organically as some of the chemicals that farmers use to spray the straw, might have a detrimental effect on the pondlife.
No one seems to know why having this straw in the water effectively stops the growth of algae, but it is very effective !
hope this helps, Lannerman.