"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
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Don't feel too bad. People with superior filters still have problem with
pea
soup. They still need to resort to using UV filter to remove it. If you
want a
quick solution, get one installed.

Hmmm. If the filter is so superior, why do they have pea green soup for
water?
I only had this problem once, immediately after I set up my pond three
years
ago. I haven't had it since.

As for bacteria products, I have no idea. I've never used them.

They work, and work well.


I disagree. I get an algae bloom EVERY YEAR. When the VF takes off, the
water clears within days. My neighbor, who uses a biofilter only, added a VF
last year, and had clear water for the first time.

I am not anti-UV, I just don't have a need for it.

Veggie filters are the way to go, if you have room for it. I don't so I use a
biofilter. It works. Perhaps you had a bad experience with it. I haven't. Of
course you are going to have some algae every year, especially at the end of
winter/early spring. That is a given since the veggies are perking up yet,
there is less shade, and the bacteria is still dormant. That changes within a
few weeks, and I can live with that. I never get pea soup algae. I always get
a little string algae in the early spring. But that is neither unsual, nor
unhealthy for the pond.