Help and advice

Well I hope I have found somewhere that I can get some serious answers
a lot of places either won't answer you or tell you off. My problem I
have a small 500 gallon pond that is only 2 feet deep. I have a 650
gallon pump in it. This pond is in direct sun and my water of course is
staying green. On this small of a pond which has no fish btw... is a UV
Sterilizer Bio Filter really needed or are there chemicals to clear up
my problem? I had a few goldfish in there until we added algaefix,
afterwards within a day the fish were dead.

The way I see it...there should be no chemicals added into anu pond for any
reason. The right size filter in the right size pond should work just fine.
What is it with the uv sterilizers???
Rich
"moe" wrote in message
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Well I hope I have found somewhere that I can get some serious answers
a lot of places either won't answer you or tell you off. My problem I
have a small 500 gallon pond that is only 2 feet deep. I have a 650
gallon pump in it. This pond is in direct sun and my water of course is
staying green. On this small of a pond which has no fish btw... is a UV
Sterilizer Bio Filter really needed or are there chemicals to clear up
my problem? I had a few goldfish in there until we added algaefix,
afterwards within a day the fish were dead.

I don't know much about uv sterilizers just everyone is trying to talk
me into investing into one. What size pump do you recommend Rich? I'm
like you on the chemicals I don't like to use them.

What kind and size of filter do you have on the pond? Your question about
recommended size of pump makes me think that there may not be sufficient
filtration. How often, and what size water changes do you perform. Algae
love phosphates, and nitrogen, whether ammonia, nitrites or nitrates. Small
water changes can improve water quality by dilution of these, but large
water changes cause more algae.
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RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html

"moe" wrote in message
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I don't know much about uv sterilizers just everyone is trying to talk
me into investing into one. What size pump do you recommend Rich? I'm
like you on the chemicals I don't like to use them.

http://www.christmasdecorations.org/...tics_corp.html

Basically that is the pump I have.

Wow Rich those are some nice looking ponds you have there. I've thought
about a bog. Was it hard to do? Where we live we don't have a backyard
to use so I am using a section of the front yard that grass refused to
grow in. I'm limited on space but could fit a bog in.

My bog filters were upflow gravel filters with plants as a veggie filter.
It was a slightly raised pond about 18 inches deep with about a foot of
gravel. The gravel is now gone, but the veggies are still there. I run
some other massive filtration, so the gravel was redundant, and gravel is
hard to clean. For one of my ponds, I used landscape timbers to frame it
up, for the other, I used retaining wall block. Line with liner. Leave a
small depression in the side you want as a waterfall. One that I think
would look good is to run a 2 foot or there abouts, ring about half way
around to the pond and plant that with all kinds of water plants. Would
help get some of the plants out of the pond providing more room for the
fish, and lots of filtration.

Thanks for the comments on my ponds.
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RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html

"moe" wrote in message
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Wow Rich those are some nice looking ponds you have there. I've thought
about a bog. Was it hard to do? Where we live we don't have a backyard
to use so I am using a section of the front yard that grass refused to
grow in. I'm limited on space but could fit a bog in.

It's a garden escape 650. If you have ever gone to walmart and have
seen those oval preformed ponds that is the same pump that is in there.
With no fish .......to be honest I've only changed the water one time
about 4 months ago and that was a 50 percent.

The way I see it...there should be no chemicals added into anu pond for any
reason. The right size filter in the right size pond should work just fine.
What is it with the uv sterilizers???
Rich

Gonna be a pretty dry pond if we can't put H2O in it. ;o) ~ jan


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