Algae all vanished at once. Theories?

[dieselplower]

This year my pond has had a heavy layer of what I will call carpet algae on the liner all year. I have also had what I will call string algae all over the tubes in the pond as well as a good amount of floating algae that I was netting out every day. Other than that the water is very clean and clear. I came home from work the other day and it is all gone. All of it. Just wondering if anyone has theories why? I have done NOTHING different with the pond recently although at the beginning of the year I did add two good size containers filled with gravel to use as filters.

 

[sissy]

tad poles could have eaten it and filters are working plus fish love all the greens .YUMMY GOOD TO THEM :cheerful:

 

[dieselplower]

Thanks for the ideas but believe me when I tell you there is no way it could have been eaten or filterd out. This pond is 8' x 9' by 5 feet deep and the entire liner was covered with an inch thick layer of carpet type algae. The string algae was easily a foot long coming off the tubes in some places and the amount of floating algae would compress down to baseball size every day after I squeezed all the water out of it. None of this could have been filtered out, as it was not free floating.

 

[sissy]

have to add love your containers .I use lava rock in mine but you made like a mini bog and plants are sucking up nutrients .I have plants in my filters also .It works I never complain and sure not changing what works .
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[sissy]

plants starve algae of nutrients that make it grow and your filters are working like mini bogs and it looks great so don't change a thing .i get lots of frogs and taddies and they can it there weight in muck and algae .Just smile and be proud you succeeded

 

[dieselplower]

Thank you so much Sissy I think yours looks great too. I wish I had a waterfall more like yours!

 

[sissy]

geeze and here I like yours better will you can add on and make another filter .I have changed mine 5 times in 9 years but kept my beloved lava rock filters .I just wish someone had told me about koi and how big they get ,mine are now over 2 feet long .I just built the new one this past spring and made
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it bigger plus I put liner under and up around my filters this way if they ever leak it runs right back in the pond

 

[HTH]

LOL and had you been trying this or that you would be telling us about the latest magic cure for algae! Love it.

 

[dieselplower]

LOL and had you been trying this or that you would be telling us about the latest magic cure for algae! Love it.

Sorry not sure I can make any sense of this. Do you have any insight?

 

[HARO]

Aliens LOVE the stuff! They land their spaceships in the dead of night, harvest the algae, and POOF! they're gone. :dunno: Hey, it makes as much sense as any other theory! :fingersx:
John

 

[shakaho]

I have to agree with the aliens. I've never heard of this.

Was there a pile of dead algae in the bottom?

 

[slakker]

Pond elves!?

 

[HTH]

Sorry not sure I can make any sense of this. Do you have any insight?

Nope, just what I said.

 

[dieselplower]

Nope, just what I said.

What was the point of your post then?

 

[dieselplower]

I have to agree with the aliens. I've never heard of this.

Was there a pile of dead algae in the bottom?

Good question. I didn't look. No idea.