Algae help please

topic posted Tue, June 14, 2005 - 10:35 AM by  Jen
I am relatively new to having fish ponds, as I inherited two ponds when I moved into my current home. (One is natural looking pond with one koi in it and the other pond has a decorative fountain and about 21 goldfish in it.) At the moment, I am feeling frustrated with the goldfish pond (approximately 250 gallons, fountain spills over into pond that the fish are in). Maybe a month ago, my husband cleaned the whole thing out. I then dropped Jungle Pond Block and Jungle Pond Clear in the amounts according to the package instructions, added a bit of blue pond dye, put in chlorine remover when we added the water back in, and replaced the previous pump and filter with what seemed like a better one. (There's actually two pumps, but one just circulates water in the fountain.) I have been continuing to use the various products at the recommended intervals. We already have green showing up again - on the bowl of the fountain, on the side walls of the pond - and my husbands says that he pulled one of the rocks out from the bottom and said it feels slimy. What can we do? Thanks in advance!
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  • Re: Algae help please

    Wed, June 15, 2005 - 10:01 AM
    Does it interfere with the pumps? Or is it just unsightly? With 20 goldfish in there I can imagine there would be algae. If you got rid of the fish and didn't add any nutrients to it, then it should go away.
    • Re: Algae help please

      Thu, June 16, 2005 - 6:29 PM
      It's just that it's unsightly. So does that mean that there's always going to be a certain amount of algae as a natural side effect? Thanks!
  • Re: Algae help please

    Fri, June 17, 2005 - 12:00 PM
    unfortunately fish + sunlight = algae :(
    I keep a pleco in my tank for the sole purpose of eating the algae. you'd probably have to take him indoors when it got cool though. I'm no expert but it's worked for me, my tank gets a lot sunlight and he keeps it under control. I'd ask pond experts what other types of fish/animals you could put in there to eat it.

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