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Clearing algae and silt loaded water
Phyllis and Jim wrote, On 31/05/2008 01:39:
Congratulations, David! Your post should be kept as an example of follow through with algae! Now, lots of plants to continue grabbing nutrients and you will not need the UV. You might try that out in a short while. We needed ours at the start of the season for a number of years. This year, we have not bothered as the water has been clear throughout. Jim Thanks Jim. I think half the fun on ponding is overcoming these kind of challenges, it gives a real sense of achievement. The trouble is, I'll now find different things in the pond to focus on, that will probably cause new problems For the first few years our pond was crammed full of plants and the algae was less of a pest. That seemed to introduced it's own problems though, such as filters clogging up with partly decomposed plant and trapped material rotting in the pond. I'm pretty sure that a bad fish infection was due to organic pollution in the water. I removed most of the plants a couple of years ago, and now try to keep them to their baskets. Now that the algae has been removed, the small veggie filter is overflowing with water cress and mint. The large iris in baskets are also doing very well. Like you say, the aim is to turn off the UV soon and hopefully let the plants starve out the algae. I expect it will take a while to get the balance just right. Do you allow water to flow through the until UV unit all year, or do you divert it. I'm not sure how much damage will be done to the glass pipes inside. -- DavidM www.djmorgan.org.uk |
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