| 3 | New Pond...Green Water!?!
• Posted by: fShake 7 on Wed, May 9, 12 at 14:18
• 29 follow-ups, last one posted on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 12:59
My new pond (2300G)is up and running with may be 3 to 4 Sarassa (a few inches long). When the pond was a few weeks old the water was crystal clear and then all of a sudden it turned green. PH level is 7.5 and I have a home made bio-filter. |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 4 | Green Pond Water / UVC
• Posted by: rapidwiz on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 20:22
• 22 follow-ups, last one posted on Sat, Jun 23, 12 at 21:40
Hi All, Well Summer is here and I have green soup. Pond size is probably about 800 Gallons, I have two ponds, a smaller one which feeds a larger one. I am in the process of getting more plants and we started the pond not too long ago. Pump has |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 5 | Can't clear up pond water, have tried everything!
• Posted by: gknee_50 on Fri, May 9, 08 at 12:32
• 105 follow-ups, last one posted on Wed, May 15, 13 at 23:51
I hope someone has some advice for me. We put in a pond last July. It is approx. 2000 gallons. We have a skimmer and a waterfall with a good pump. We put rock in it to cover the liner and added dry bacteria, de-clorinator and barley extract. M |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 6 | Green Water
• Posted by: tulln1 z6a NE NJ on Thu, Jun 23, 11 at 20:36
• 6 follow-ups, last one posted on Mon, Jul 4, 11 at 12:08
Having a green water algae problem for the first time in 10 years. I have a 1500 gal pond with 3 filters. 1200 gph pump to UV to Skippy filter to waterfall. A 4200gph pump to a filter-falls, and a pondmaster 2000 filter in the pond with a 500 g |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 7 | high PH
• Posted by: ste1957 illinois on Wed, May 9, 12 at 0:29
• 29 follow-ups, last one posted on Tue, Jul 24, 12 at 6:59
Can someone help me lower my ph in my fish pond? I have a 1000 gallon fish pond and the ph levels are always high night and day, I keep putting in ph decreaser and nothing happens. I am on a well system water supply and the ph straight from the we |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 8 | How long will it take for green water to clear?
• Posted by: Lori_Carlos none on Sun, May 29, 11 at 23:42
• 4 follow-ups, last one posted on Mon, May 30, 11 at 21:04
Our pond was starting to look a bit green. There is algae on the walls of the pond and the water was slowly getting green. We figured that we probably needed to change the bulb in the UV sterilizer. We took the bulb out and bought a new one as wel |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 9 | Green Bond Water and string alge on the side
• Posted by: flyersfan PA on Tue, Jan 15, 08 at 20:25
• 4 follow-ups, last one posted on Sat, May 22, 10 at 12:47
Please Help Me I was checking on my fish today and noticed that the pond water is so green that I cannot see more then a few inches into the pond. The pond water is like peas soup and there is green stringy algee all along the sides of the pond |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 10 | My pond water is green and I need help!!!
• Posted by: batu_chinua on Fri, May 7, 10 at 3:48
• 4 follow-ups, last one posted on Sat, May 8, 10 at 13:06
A few weeks ago I cleaned my pond after a winter of being neglected. For the first week or so I had nice clear water and now it is green!!! I dont have any plants and I am afraid to add any fish because it looks so bad!! Can anyone help me??? |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 11 | Need help with water hyacinths
• Posted by: gknee_50 on Fri, Jul 24, 09 at 15:32
• 22 follow-ups, last one posted on Wed, May 16, 12 at 18:02
My hyacinths are slowing turning brown. I have pulled off the dead leaves.....they were very healthy when I first put them in my pond, but are now slowing dying. The weather here has been raining for the past 2 weeks so I'm not sure if that is a |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 12 | Need help growing water lettuce
• Posted by: larryl on Sun, May 11, 08 at 15:31
• 27 follow-ups, last one posted on Sat, Sep 8, 12 at 14:04
I have tried to grow water lettuce in past years and have had no luck. They got buggy, turned yellow and didn't grow much. Water hyacinths right next to them grew very well. I don't have a clue why they didn't do well. This year I have had |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 13 | My cloudy green pond...
• Posted by: juttz z5/6 Mich on Wed, May 16, 12 at 15:23
• 6 follow-ups, last one posted on Thu, May 17, 12 at 10:07
I bet you all have seen question after question about how to get rid of green ponds but I just found this forum so please send any info even if it has been answered before..my husband and I have had a pond only one full year and by the end of the |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 14 | Why is my pond water looking like this?
• Posted by: newgen on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 21:29
• 28 follow-ups, last one posted on Tue, Jul 27, 10 at 8:00
Summary: pond was recently completed, very few plants, including: water lettuce, hyacinth, parrot feather, sensitive plants, anacharis, papyrus, black taro, and the most likely culprit (in my newbie opinion) a fat goldfish that my friend dropped i |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 15 | Pond as a natural water collector with no liner� bad idea?
• Posted by: green_go z5a on Mon, Feb 20, 12 at 23:13
• 10 follow-ups, last one posted on Sun, Apr 8, 12 at 2:26
Hi guys, I read lots of topics in this forum in these past few days and it seems that all of you have artificial ponds with liners�. I am looking for some advice whether it is possible to build an artificial pond with no liners, just natural c |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 16 | Why algae bloom after water change?
• Posted by: jalal on Thu, Jul 8, 10 at 18:43
• 17 follow-ups, last one posted on Fri, Jul 16, 10 at 7:52
I did a 10% water change yesterday as the 300 gal settling chamber was very dirty--lots of dead algae on the 3 matala mats I have in there. I use the chamber for changes as can isolate the water and treat it with Prime (chloramines and chlorine) |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 17 | Very, very large pond with many problems
• Posted by: spanky_md 7 MD on Sat, Aug 11, 12 at 23:36
• 33 follow-ups, last one posted on Thu, Apr 11, 13 at 13:31
Hi, all--I have been a Gardenweb member for many years but haven't been active in awhile. But i'm back with a big one. My daughter and her husband are buying a house with a very large pond. I have accepted the position of Head Water Gardener |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 18 | Fish super-stressed; temp flux to blame?
• Posted by: zinniachick southwest Ohio on Wed, Jan 30, 13 at 10:33
• 43 follow-ups, last one posted on Mon, Mar 4, 13 at 21:19
Hi all, sorry to be such a foul-weather friend to the forum. We awoke this morning to a dead 20-inch koi. All the fish have been acting stressed this winter, hanging near the surface even when air temps were in the 20s, standing separately here an |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 19 | my wand is rusting, i am such an idiot!
• Posted by: fairy_toadmother z5 ncentral il on Wed, Jun 28, 06 at 2:48
• 119 follow-ups, last one posted on Fri, Dec 1, 06 at 17:16
i could just feed myself to the biggest python i can find! i have been watching the mud puddles at work...tadpoles drying up in the sun. yesterday, i drove past one (they are on our gravel road) adn there was hardly any water left in it com |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
| 20 | How long should I let city water 'sit'??
• Posted by: berlyn 9/TX on Mon, Oct 3, 11 at 10:23
• 11 follow-ups, last one posted on Fri, Oct 21, 11 at 11:07
I've been ponding for 10+ years. This summer has been h*ll with the heat and drought! My pond turned green, not the normal seasonal green. Green with a couple of inches of clarity. We tried everything to clear the water; natural & chemical, to no |
| | Forum Message - Found at: Ponds & Aquatic Plants Forum |
Next Page | Page: 1 2 3 ... 24 |
