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It pics up fine algae cells and you can clean it often and keep reusing the quilt batting .I hose it off soak it in peroxide and water and put it back in .I keep it in my filters all the time .I bought a laguna one but you would not need one as big .My pond is about 4 ft deep and you can see the bottom
I just use4 percent peroxide I buy by the gallon and it really does not matter how much you use when you rinse out quilt batting .I added only to the pond before the fish where put back in and only added a cup since water was store from the old pond in everything i could find .It can kill plants .I even rinse all my plant roots in a solution of it just in case there may be a free loader or 2 in the plant .I then soak my plants in fertilizer and water before I repot them .Peroxide breaks down fast and just adds oxygen to the water
actually if you use it to clean with and do dishes in dishwasher or use it in your washing machine it kills bacteria and odor .I take a bath in peroxide and baking soda it softens your skin and cleans out your pores and added it cleans the jets in my whirlpool tub .I use a quarter cup of each in my jetted tub
sorry koi we pond napped your thread .Was wondering on that metal could it be causing some of your problems also .I started to look at it better and just wondered .Do you have a liquid test kit .
It pics up fine algae cells and you can clean it often and keep reusing the quilt batting .I hose it off soak it in peroxide and water and put it back in .I keep it in my filters all the time .I bought a laguna one but you would not need one as big .My pond is about 4 ft deep and you can see the bottom
Sissy: What is your solution mix of X parts water by X parts peroxide? and what percent peroxide is the peroxide?
Welcome to the forum Koiandturtlepond. I think you will notice that the uv clarifier will have a huge effect, but I highly recommend you use the quilt batting as sissy has mentioned, even though the uv kills the cells, they may still float around and decompose in the pond making more food for other algae, this way you can at least filter out all the algae cells and wash them out of the pond. I also recommend planting a water lily for some cover from the sun and it will absorb nutrients from the water so the algae have less to eat.
For the heron problem, you should get a fake heron statue and put it next to the pond., it helps deter them in most cases, I would also buy a much finer mesh net, because no offense but that one is a major eye sore. Lastly you NEED aeration, your pond is going to become a dead and unhealthy anaerobic bacteria zone.
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