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[QUOTE="GBBUDD, post: 373602, member: 10026"]
The huge benefit to having a bog filter over a sand filter sieve or uv is that  phosphates, and nitrates are the number one cause of algae blooms and they are also the hardest to remove from the water column of any tank or pond. That's where the bog comes in what cold hard filters can not do is what mother nature does best. Plants and micro bacteria FEED on these by products and grow. Thus the plants over grow there area and need pruning or down right removal. In doing so you just removed the phosphate and nitrates from your pond. no water change the plants did it for you. The down fall is the new tank/ pond syndrome lisa mentioned  it takes some time for the pond to balance out . You have already seen the tank in action with the hair algae if your system was not working you would be inundated with the hair algae.  A great sign of a system that working. and seeing you have no plants even more so it's solely the bacteria and or the fish. All good
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