Blanket Weed

[Damian Legg]

Hi everyone last year i put some new lily pads in my pond as you can see in my profile picture but my pond seems to have lots of Blanket weed in it and its growing round the lily pads and dont seem to have any lily pads coming up how can i fix this problem. Any help greatly appreciated many thanks.

 

[VanDiesil]

Barley straw might help but takes a little while to establish the bacteria that hinders algae growth. First thing is to check your water parameters. High phosphates in the water will promote algae growth as will overstocking the pond and regardless of how good your filtration is, the algae will grow still. I am having a similar issue with my existing pond at the moment and putting it down to the sheer number of fish in it (was supposed to be temporary until end of summer last year but new pond still isn't finished, hence why they are still in there).

The lillys will come up eventually. A week ago, the lilly in the existing pond had no pads or runners coming off of it, now there are 5 pads on the surface (last year even with the blanket weed problem, the single lilly sprouted 26 pads!!!!!)

 

[sissy]

barley straw just breaks down to be peroxide and best way is to remove it by hand and then test your water something is feeding it .I use a basket under my outlet house with quilt batting soaked in peroxide and water .It picks up all the fine stuff plus the nutrients

 

[Koilady]

We have been making our own bio-filters for years. If you build the bio-filter large enough not only for the size of your pond but for the amount of fish in your pond, you will never have to use barley straw, u.v. lights or chemicals.

Your's Koily, Lorraine