Water is now brown, what next?

[USMC Ponder]

Ok the pea soup cleaned up a few days ago. Makes me happy. It's a little clearer but now its brown. Like a buddy brown not due to tannin. Like watered down chocolate milk. Do I just wait this out too or is there something I should do or can do?

 

[Lisak1]

A picture would help. Did you do anything to clear the water, or just let nature take it's course?

 

[USMC Ponder]

A picture would help. Did you do anything to clear the water, or just let nature take it's course?

nature took its course. I'll get a pick...

 

[sissy]

do you have a lot of organic waste on the bottom of the pond.With the heat we are getting it will break down even faster .Do you know the temperature of your pond water .Cold water added to the hot water can sometimes even make it worse

 

[Mmathis]

Oooh, I’ve had “tannin-brown” water before, but never “chocolate milk” water! That almost reminds me of when I would first start up an aquarium and would have a bacterial bloom. Do you have any fish in there yet, and if so, how are they doing?

 

[USMC Ponder]

THe pic with the turtle in it illustrates it the best

 

[sissy]

You can try quilt batting in a crate .I keep one in each filter

 

[USMC Ponder]

let the water pass through? My only filter is a skippy filter.

 

[Mmathis]

That looks like “pea soup,” to me.

 

[USMC Ponder]

That looks like “pea soup,” to me.

The pictures don't reflect it. In person it is brown looking. Even my wife commented on how it changed color. I guess I'll let it be. I did notice or have noticed the pond does stink pretty bad. Smells like something died but my Koi which are the largest are still there and the only animal large enough would be the turtle but she's still running around begging for food.

 

[Mmathis]

The pictures don't reflect it. In person it is brown looking. Even my wife commented on how it changed color. I guess I'll let it be. I did notice or have noticed the pond does stink pretty bad. Smells like something died but my Koi which are the largest are still there and the only animal large enough would be the turtle but she's still running around begging for food.

You might want to scoop the bottom with a net. I found a dead squirrel in my pond, and others have reported finding dead critters!

 

[Telion]

You can try quilt batting in a crate .I keep one in each filter View attachment 112965

This would be my recommendation too.

 

[sissy]

I keep one in each filter and put the blue reusable furnace filters ontop of the quilt batting .The blue filter catch's the bigger stuff and quilt batting catch's the finer stuff

 

[qclabrat]

You might want to scoop the bottom with a net. I found a dead squirrel in my pond, and others have reported finding dead critters!

I recently found a chipmunk, but it was a floater

 

[Lisak1]

I did notice or have noticed the pond does stink pretty bad. Smells like something died

Your pond should never smell, other than "pond-y". But the way it's so uniformly colored, I don't think it's anything dead, at least not an animal. Dead algae maybe? Try scooping a glass of water from the pond and let it sit - see if it settles out.