I absolutely LOVE the professional pond builders, this one included - no names because they all do it so it's not unique to any one pond company.
HOWEVER if you have ever wondered why they encourage the annual clean outs, take a look at this video - especially right around 7:21.
When you see how much money this can represent to just one company, not to mention the constant contact with customers which gives them that opportunity to turn every maintenance call into a sales call where they can upsell, update, add-on, etc it's just good business.
Seeing all that green in that pond may make some pond owners cringe, but for me it just looked like spring... maybe spring on speed, but still spring. One thing I noticed was the number and size of fish in this pond. He mentioned it was about 6000 gallons of water in the total system, but he doesn't say if they keep that running year round. If they shut it down, they cut the pond volume in half. I didn't count, but rough estimate there were at LEAST 8 or 9 really good sized fish in there. That many fish with very little plant growth in spring means lots of algae. While the pond looks nice and shiny at the end, experience will tell you that pond is starting all over with a whole new bio-system. Saving the water helps, but power washing those rocks? Not something I would do.
HOWEVER if you have ever wondered why they encourage the annual clean outs, take a look at this video - especially right around 7:21.
When you see how much money this can represent to just one company, not to mention the constant contact with customers which gives them that opportunity to turn every maintenance call into a sales call where they can upsell, update, add-on, etc it's just good business.
Seeing all that green in that pond may make some pond owners cringe, but for me it just looked like spring... maybe spring on speed, but still spring. One thing I noticed was the number and size of fish in this pond. He mentioned it was about 6000 gallons of water in the total system, but he doesn't say if they keep that running year round. If they shut it down, they cut the pond volume in half. I didn't count, but rough estimate there were at LEAST 8 or 9 really good sized fish in there. That many fish with very little plant growth in spring means lots of algae. While the pond looks nice and shiny at the end, experience will tell you that pond is starting all over with a whole new bio-system. Saving the water helps, but power washing those rocks? Not something I would do.
