Pics..HELP!

hi have just joined the newsgroup & we have about a 20,000 litre pond,
have had it for about 2.5yrs now. from day one we had a uv filter &
have never had a problem with green water. the only thing we do get
abit of now is blanket weed. which we started to get more of in the
last year or so for some reason.
hope you've sorted your problem out now re green wtr, any tips for
blanket weed? have tried barley flakes & the fish just ate them, have
tried just removing the blanket weed but hard to do when have frogsporn
& baby fish in water to avoid have just bought some extract of barley
straw by interpet to add but hope it works as quite costly. 1 bottle
costs =A314.99 & will only do 2 applications & bottle says will need to
be done very couple of weeks! will keep my fingers crossed!

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hi have just joined the newsgroup & we have about a 20,000 litre pond,
have had it for about 2.5yrs now. from day one we had a uv filter &
have never had a problem with green water. the only thing we do get
abit of now is blanket weed. which we started to get more of in the
last year or so for some reason.
hope you've sorted your problem out now re green wtr, any tips for
blanket weed? have tried barley flakes & the fish just ate them, have
tried just removing the blanket weed but hard to do when have frogsporn
& baby fish in water to avoid have just bought some extract of barley
straw by interpet to add but hope it works as quite costly. 1 bottle
costs £14.99 & will only do 2 applications & bottle says will need to
be done very couple of weeks! will keep my fingers crossed!

Try using Aquazyme, or some similar product. Start putting it in as soon as the
water temperature gets over 50 degrees. Put it in once a week. After about a
month, you shouldn't have any more problems with algae, that is, if you also
have some kind of filtration. And add more plants as well.

Hi Lou!

Glad to *see* you here on rec.ponds.
Some folks had good luck here last year by sprinkling
plain, unscented, generic kitty litter on blanket weed,
which we call string algae.
If you decide to try it let us know how it works.

Other than that the same rules apply to it as regular algae,
starve it of nutrients - fish waste, muck and mulm of rotting
organics, sunlight and employing all manner of plants to
compete for the available nutrients.

kathy :-)
www.blogfromthebog.com