Does anybody remember the math?

[Relic]

Just doing my spring-time cleaning out of string algae and was trying to remember - does it grow 10 miles per day or 100? I always get the decimal wrong...

 

[GBBUDD]

Seems that way don't it. Post some pics and tell us a little about your pond maybe we can help. How old is your pond

 

[Relic]

I'm just bloviating over the annual ritual. Pond is 25 years old, 650 gallon hard-shelled fiberglass pool (tub imported from England). Host to 9 shubunkins and the occasional toad looking for romance...

 

[poconojoe]

That's just part of Spring! A happy time of year!

For some reason I don't get much string algae here in Pennsylvania.
My liner does get that blanket of green in the Spring, but I know it will go away once my plants kick in.

 

[Stephen Noble]

2+2=5 - 1

 

[addy1]

I get minimal, my bog sucks out the nutrients it lives on. Water, at this point, crystal clear

 

[Lisak1]

I think you have to multiple by an exponent that is equal to the pounds of leaves you scoop out of the pond. Or something like that!

 

[Relic]

It's amazing stuff, for sure. It will be gone in a few weeks when the rest of the plants kick into high gear. One interesting thing it clearly reveals: under-the-surface-of-the-water circulation. The surface of my pond slowly rotates counterclockwise, but underneath it moves slowly clockwise. Watching the long strands of algae undulate is mystifying...

 

[brokensword]

for a couple of early years, I got string algae in the pond but I haven't seen hide nor hair (sic) in quite a while. Does the string algae hide out in others' ponds waiting for the right condition? Somehow, it all died out in mine and I don't get it anymore.

 

[addy1]

Somehow, it all died out in mine and I don't get it anymore

Plants plants and more plants, they cure string algae

 

[Lisak1]

It is often an early spring grower for many people, which makes sense. When nothing else has started growing in the pond because it's too cold, the string algae gets a foothold. Some years we get it, some we don't. Many factors that influence that, I'm sure. In any case, we should see it as a helper, not a nuisance.