water hyacinth and green water

[hawk2110]

I like how you added no fish "that you no of" it made me laugh a little because I'm the same way. I always end up with more baby fish than i thought. I feel like no matter how many plants or what type your pond will do way bettter. But i have heard of people who don't want any plants and there ponds and fish are great. I feel like having half plant cover makes the pond look more realistic. But also, some people are in it just for the fish.

 

[addy1]

lol, the stream ponds are so full of plants you can't see into the water, I do see the frogs. I put two trap doors in the largest stream pond, have now rescued over 30 from the stream, below that pond, they wander out of the pond after a lot of rain, but when the stream is not running they will die, as there is no water in that one part of the stream.

There could be fish in those stream ponds lol

The big pond, a ton of fish, no clue if fry have made it this year, so far no sightings of fry. The deck pond has some shubunkins that will need to be relocated if we get a cold winter, or we need a stock tank heater, it will freeze up

 

[hawk2110]

I'm in the process of getting my pond to be all koi but the two big koi I think are male and then there are 4 small guys so won't no if male or female for a few years. Someday hope I can have many koi of different colors and patterns. I live in country too and by end of summers I have like 30 frogs in the pond

 

[Carpe_Diem]

I would also like to add some info here as it directly applies to the original post.

Our pond get's full sun all day. From late last year to the start of this year we had a bad string algae
problem. I have a skimmer + waterfall weir setup. I added Hyacinth to the Water fall weir where the
water comes up through and within 24 hours our pond was crystal clear!

As the Hyacinth expands within the the weir I kept adding the extras to the pond and now the main pond
body has several batches of Hyacinth for top cover, didn't cost me a thing.

We also had some frogs visit which produced several hundred tadpoles which also attributed to the
algae dissapearing.

Glad to hear your pond is clear.

 

[addy1]

Those tadpoles love to eat the algae, I watch them in the lotus pond snacking away.

 

[Bluerooster]

Many people figure the same thing. It's certainly a logical enough theory. And a theory that has been stated as being fact for many years, by many people, in many forums. Also a theory that has been tested and proven incorrect many times.

A green pond generally has zero ammonia and nitrates because the algae is consuming all there is as it becomes available to reproduce. When an algae bloom dies and water goes clear there is generally a spike in ammonia short term and increased nitrates longer term. Very simple for anyone to test and many papers written on the subject......

I believe you are on to something there. My pond is pretty much "pea soup", all water tests show ammonia-0 nitrate-near 0, nitrite-near 0, PH very low, Kh very very low, and very soft water. It's started to clear up just a bit.
But all the test levels are low. to off the chart low. The fish seem to be healthy, and the plants are growing, so I'll just allow nature to do what it does.

 

[Mmathis]

@Bluerooster This is a 6 y/o thread, however, the info is timeless. Good to see that you are digging into the GPF archives! “Waterbug” hasn’t been around in quite a while, so don’t expect a reply from him (I miss him, though.... @Waterbug, are you still out there?)

 

[Bluerooster]

I will "necropost" in a heartbeat. especially if I find some useful information. May save someone the trouble of using the "search" function.

 

[Mmathis]

I will "necropost" in a heartbeat. especially if I find some useful information. May save someone the trouble of using the "search" function.

There is a LOT of good and valuable information in those older threads/posts! Sometimes, over the years as members come and go, they will contribute ideas & knowledge that will end up getting lost with the ages. It’s sad, but that’s life. Sometimes what I’ll do if I run across an oldie but goodie is reply with the word “bump.” That puts the thread/post back into circulation, but doesn’t imply that I expect an answer from the crypt, LOL!