Improve water

[Limu]

Hello,

I have a goldfish pond and all are alive but I want to improve the water quality and make it a bit clearer.

I have a filter installed and pickup dead leaves every now and then. But is there a way to get rid of the green line?

Thanks, I have attached images.

 

[j.w]

@Limu You could use a fine's filter made out of a pot that is stuffed w/quilt batting to pick up all the floating algae but it takes a lot of time and a lot of emptying and cleaning the batting often. You put a pump in pond and connect a hose to pump and send water to the pot and water goes through batting and back down into bottom of pot. Pot sits on the edge of the pond and clean water goes back into pond through holes in bottom of pot.

 

[Limu]

View attachment 123543@Limu You could use a fine's filter made out of a pot that is stuffed w/quilt batting to pick up all the floating algae but it takes a lot of time and a lot of emptying and cleaning the batting often. You put a pump in pond and connect a hose to pump and send water to the pot and water goes through batting and back down into bottom of pot. Pot sits on the edge of the pond and clean water goes back into pond through holes in bottom of pot.

At the moment I have a water filter in there but doesnt seem to be doing much. Do you think a water pump will be better?

 

[GBBUDD]

incorporate a bog into your setup your water looks clear but it has nutrents floating about the wetland plants will eat it up

 

[j.w]

@Limu water pump and filter would be the same as water pump is hooked up to filter in my pond. The set up I'm talking about would be an extra filter:

I took an old short garden hose and hooked it to my water pump and pumped the pond water to my pot filter w/quilt batting stuffed in the pot. Pot has holes on sides and bottom. Let it run till it clogged up the batting w/all the green muck and algae and was running over the top and then I would take out the batting and hose it off good and put back in and do it over and over again till water was clear. It does take time. I agree a bog for you pond would be much better in the long run.

You could use an old milk crate also:

Silly cat

 

[bettasngoldfish]

What kind of filter are you using?

Any idea on the size of you pond? (Gallons)