New to both ponds and blogs.....Help

[mailmand]

Where to begin....Last summer (2012) I dug a hole used a 95 gallon preformed pond added a nice little waterfall, added water and viola, instant pond. I put in a Lilly, a miniture bamboo and a horsetail plant, and 6 snails. Life was great. We wintered the pond by putting a net over it, running a pond heater, and sank all the plants to the bottom. Winter went well. Spring came and water was clear and all looked great. cleaned out the dead leaves and raised the plants, fertalized the lilly and went to the local pond store. Bought another lilly and 6 fish and two tadpoles. The fish died so the store replaced them. Then all but one died. the tadpoles are fine. Put the first group in the pond and then it happened, overnight, GREEN WATER. So I started adding algaefix. and no change then I started adding pond clear, the good bacteria. and no change. Now I'm adding algeafix every three days and pond clear once a week. and no change, Green Water. So now that I have been looking at green water for two months, Im getting discouraged. So I made a polyfil filter system to run with the 8"x8" filter system already in place. And guess what, yes, green water. My ph is 6.8. Going on three months looking at green water ........ HELP anyone?

 

[Lauryl007]

:goldfish: I will also post about the green pond and what we are doing, mailmand! Maybe between the two of us, we will get some suggestions. I think you should cut/paste your post to one of the other areas as well instead of just the Introduction area! irate2:

 

[dieselplower]

You added too much fish poop all at once. Do you have a filter connected to the pump? Try 1 fish a week for 6 weeks. A uv filter will clear up the green water.

 

[addy1]

Welcome to another marylander!

Watch the ph, that may have killed the fish. We are on a well, the well is around 5.5 or so. The pond sits around 7.6, now. I killed fish when I first started up my pond, didn't realize the ph was so low.

Build a mini bog, my pond filtered only by a bog is never green.

 

[sissy]

sounds like it could be a lack of oxygen in the water .How are the snails doing .If everything dies the you can treat the whole pond with peroxide .Just take the plants out .Wait for it to clear .Sounds like your filter was not working yet .Green water is not really bad for fish just for us viewing the fish .I just treated my 300 gallon stock tank that way to get the filter up and running right I am using filter material from my pond .Changes in temps and rain will turn it green

 

[sissy]

my ph stays at 9 and keep it that way with crushed oyster shells and also use activated charcoal
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[don't ask]

welcome

mailmand and


Lauryl007

 

[Souper09]

I'm on board with the ph needing to be at 7.5 to 8.5, getting towards 6.5 or below could be deadly.

 

[DrCase]

Welcom to the Forum