My customer wants to add chlorine tablets to her pond to get rid of the algae she has building up. If you install an IonGen, the only product you will need to purchase will be beneficial bacteria. We will soon have the new 2nd Generation IonGen available. Investing in the IonGen is the best savings in product purchase and in your time. Then the nutrient load will cause the string algae to begin to form again. When using algaecides, remember that it will kill the algae, algae goes to bottom of pond and then decomposes. The IonGen is an electronic system that eradicates the string algae and prevents it from forming in the future. Your choice is to ignore it, use an Algaecide such as Algaeway, manually clean off the algae from the waterfall with an Algaecide like EcoBlast, or in the spring after a clean out, install an IonGen. String Algae is more prevalent in the spring and fall and in areas of the country where the winter has been warm. I also put clokrine one time in it assuming it would help, but it just wound up foaming. How do I get rid of it? I am letting pondless waterfall run through the winter. The waterfall rock has green slime (algae I assume) on it. Get a sun shade cloth and shade you pond if you can. The extreme hot weather is causing many problems with green water. Green water can take up to 4 to 6 weeks to clear. Hot weather and full sun can bring on green water. To keep the ecosystem balanced you need to use a bacteria enzyme on a regular basis. A good ecosystem in a pond would consists of rocks and gravel, filtration system, a balanced number of fish, and plants. You have to use a bacteria in your pond to keep the ecosystem balance. You could do a water exchange no more between 10 and 20%. Or use MicrobeLift Algae way 5.4 on a regular gasin. Remove it and don’t let it get into your basin. Or turn off and let the sun bake the algae off. Pull off the algae and then treat the rocks. How do I kill the brown algae, that is in our holding tank (600 Gallons)? We have a pondless waterfall. Muck Reducer is a bacteria based product. Is is safe for fish and plants to use Muck Reducer and the bacteria together? It is safe. However, seems that muck is accumulating now. I have been using Beneficial Bacteria for Ponds which has been working effectively. Use the pond carbon which comes in a mesh bag and needs to be placed in the Biofalls or where you get flow through the carbon. Emptying the pond and refill the pond with new water or wait till spring when you clean it out.Ģ. There are two ways to get rid of the brown water:ġ. If you could use a fish (skimmer) net now, to net out the leaves settled on the bottom, this might help. To avoid this from happening, use a pond net to keep the leaves out. When the leaves fall into the pond, they have to decompose and if there are a lot of them because of their organic makeup, the process could change the color of the water to brownish. Now I have dark stained water – coffee color. My pond water was clear until fall leaves fell into the water.
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