Hello!
Context: We bought a home with a pond so all things pond are new to us!
2500 gallon pond with pump, bog filter, and waterfall plus about 50 large and small goldfish.
We have the large savio skimmer and recently have been fighting with green water. I think we may have inadvertently thought it was bad algae blooms so we treated with algaefix for over a month (might have inadvertently ridden algae that would have eaten the micro algae floating around, I've learned).
This week we investigated our UV light, realizing it hasn't been on perhaps since June when we moved in.
TODAY I found after testing the light and resetting the transformer that the LEAF BASKET blocks the UV light. I can tell it's been this way for a while because there is a lighter patch on the back portion of the basket where the UV light emits.
I also noted that there are now leaf baskets for sale with that corner portion missing (theoretically allowing the UV light to shine through the water).
Is this a common issue? Or, am I overthinking it and the UV light still works from behind the closed basket?
Thanks in advance!
Portland Pond Noobie.
Context: We bought a home with a pond so all things pond are new to us!
2500 gallon pond with pump, bog filter, and waterfall plus about 50 large and small goldfish.
We have the large savio skimmer and recently have been fighting with green water. I think we may have inadvertently thought it was bad algae blooms so we treated with algaefix for over a month (might have inadvertently ridden algae that would have eaten the micro algae floating around, I've learned).
This week we investigated our UV light, realizing it hasn't been on perhaps since June when we moved in.
TODAY I found after testing the light and resetting the transformer that the LEAF BASKET blocks the UV light. I can tell it's been this way for a while because there is a lighter patch on the back portion of the basket where the UV light emits.
I also noted that there are now leaf baskets for sale with that corner portion missing (theoretically allowing the UV light to shine through the water).
Is this a common issue? Or, am I overthinking it and the UV light still works from behind the closed basket?
Thanks in advance!
Portland Pond Noobie.