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Pond pictures and update
I agree with you totally.. I have a 55 gallon fish tank started with a 10
and then moved on now onto a pond outside. Can never have too many I think lol. Anyway, I had always cleaned it routinely, sometimes I think I did more to it then it needed. Then pea soup water came and hit out of the blue and nothing i did to try to fix it worked. Unfortunately there was something wrong with the water supply in our Town and many people were getting the green water. I had found this out after I transferred everything over from my 55 to a 10 and lost about 8 fish overnight I then set the tank back up again and put the surviving fish in the next day and within a week or two again it started getting cloudy from the bacterial bloom and then pea soup green again. I added some algae fix, and it cleared up within 2 hours. I then planted the tank and it has been on and off with some blooms but nothing compared to what is was. I do water changes when needed when the chemicals get too high, but nothing like I used to do with putting in chemicals to clear the tank, I just let nature takes it course and everything works out in the end. Now I have a crystal clear tank and dont do much with it. I'm just hoping that the pond will work itself out. I need to plant some plants around the shelving to cover up some of the liner that shows around the edges and also help with the beauty of the pond. We are awaiting the grass to grow in the dirt areas outside the pond so that we can put in a bench there to sit and enjoy it now. Chrissy "BenignVanilla" wrote in message ... "Chrissy" wrote in message news:WddTa.118652$Ph3.15170@sccrnsc04... Dont know if some of you may remember me posting. I was one of the ones that had dirt in my water. snip After draining the pond by using the pump and a long hose attached to it we set it back up after washing down the liner. Of course it poured almost the whole week after we set it up again and more mud got in there before we could fully finish putting the rock border around the edges to keep the liner in place. We now have murky but its also looking pea soup green as well, which it was never doing before. snip Often, you (the royal you, not chrissy) read advice here and ignore it because there is something about knowing/doing yourself. I know this from my mud problem. My water was opaque orange for months. I tried everything, draining, particle filtering, calcite, etc. The true solution...tons of plants...and tons of STOP MESSING WITH THE DAMN POND!!!! Chrissy I promise you, and everyone here will tell you I know what I am talking about. Get your rocks up, so you have no more run off. Toss your plants in, and STOP MESSING WITH THE DAMN POND!!! If I would have just listened when everyone told me to stop run off and STOP MESSING WITH THE DAMN POND!!!, my clay problems would have been over weeks ago. I now have gin clear water, because I stopped run-off, tossed in a lot of plants, and (say it with me now) STOPPED MESSING WITH THE DAMN POND. In short, stop run off, lots of plants, STOP MESSING WITH THE DAMN POND!!! BV. |
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