will adding plants actually solve my problem? or just help it?
"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
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"blah" wrote in message
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soo...if i were to add this filteration plants i would start seeing the
water being to clear up within weeks? or is one of those... take all the
water out and start over and add the plants with new water kinda thing?


Keep in mind, I am first season ponder, so have your salt on hand and take
it by the grain. IMHO, large volume water changes are a bad idea, unless
you
have something very nasty in your water, like Jerry Lewis VHS tapes. IMHO,
You want to get a body of water rolling, and cycling and keep it there,
tuning it for issues. If you have algae in the water, combat it by choking
it, with plants. Killing it will just make a food supply for more algae if
there is nothing to compete. Changing the water will give you a temp
solution, with a problem that will just return.

I learned the hard way. Mess with the pond, and you get a mess. I think if
you spent $15 bucks or so, you could get some anacharis and WH. Toss them
in
and wait two weeks. I bet there will be a nice improvement. CAVEAT: This
assumes you have good filtration and you don't have 350 koi in 400 gallons
of water. There is a reason GF and Koi are called pond pigs, and it ain't
because they taste good with eggs.

BV.