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Good morning all,
We just bought a house and it has a beautiful pond with a waterfall. No filter but it has a pump. I am not sure if the water is clean enough, maybe it is but recently the number of algae coming to the surface has increased and it is now covering probably 80% of the pond, way more than necessary! I also learned from reading this forum that duckweed has started appearing. From what I can see, I don't think that the main floating algae is string algae but overgrown underwater algae. I am attaching pictures to help understand the situation.
I would be most grateful if someone could please guide me as per what I should do to keep this pond in good shape. Ideally we would love to have some fish or turtles in it. We are in the Uk in case that it makes any difference.
My main questions are:
- What should I do with all the algae that has come to the surface and is now covering the majority of the pond? if remove is the answer, how?
- Do I need to worry about the duckweed?
- Do I have too many iris plants on the left of the pond? I have read somewhere that you need to keep them under control.
- Would it help if I add some pebbles to the waterfall area in terms of filtering?
- Do I need an aerator?
- Do I need a filter? the water seems pretty clean but I have been thinking about building a bog filter, specially if I add fish.
- Anything specific I need to do now that winter is coming? prune iris?
In other words, what would you do if this was your pond?
Thank you so so much for helping,
Silvia
We just bought a house and it has a beautiful pond with a waterfall. No filter but it has a pump. I am not sure if the water is clean enough, maybe it is but recently the number of algae coming to the surface has increased and it is now covering probably 80% of the pond, way more than necessary! I also learned from reading this forum that duckweed has started appearing. From what I can see, I don't think that the main floating algae is string algae but overgrown underwater algae. I am attaching pictures to help understand the situation.
I would be most grateful if someone could please guide me as per what I should do to keep this pond in good shape. Ideally we would love to have some fish or turtles in it. We are in the Uk in case that it makes any difference.
My main questions are:
- What should I do with all the algae that has come to the surface and is now covering the majority of the pond? if remove is the answer, how?
- Do I need to worry about the duckweed?
- Do I have too many iris plants on the left of the pond? I have read somewhere that you need to keep them under control.
- Would it help if I add some pebbles to the waterfall area in terms of filtering?
- Do I need an aerator?
- Do I need a filter? the water seems pretty clean but I have been thinking about building a bog filter, specially if I add fish.
- Anything specific I need to do now that winter is coming? prune iris?
In other words, what would you do if this was your pond?
Thank you so so much for helping,
Silvia
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