In my small 'water garden' which was water hyacinth with a few guppies everything was going great, seemed balanced. I had a huge tadpole issue, so I decided to add two feeder goldfish to see if they would help with the tadpoles. They did.
Then I went on vacation and my sister was assigned the job of feeding the fish in the front gardens, well she overfed them and fed them at night (when they can't even see the food), I came back to string algae in the pond and of course the hyacinths are struggling, they do not do well in any situation with algae (seriously question how they are considered one of the world's worst weeds when they are so difficult to grow!).
I plan to take out the feeder golds today, see if the pond will clear up with less of a load in there. There is no real filteration in the small ponds. Just a pump with some quilt batting on it
Wonder if I can do a small amount of peroxide in there to kill off the algae, see if the hyacinths will catch up. But how much would I use in a 35 gall pond?
Any suggestions?
Then I went on vacation and my sister was assigned the job of feeding the fish in the front gardens, well she overfed them and fed them at night (when they can't even see the food), I came back to string algae in the pond and of course the hyacinths are struggling, they do not do well in any situation with algae (seriously question how they are considered one of the world's worst weeds when they are so difficult to grow!).
I plan to take out the feeder golds today, see if the pond will clear up with less of a load in there. There is no real filteration in the small ponds. Just a pump with some quilt batting on it
Wonder if I can do a small amount of peroxide in there to kill off the algae, see if the hyacinths will catch up. But how much would I use in a 35 gall pond?
Any suggestions?
