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| Hi, I'm new to ponding and know I'm going to love it. I got the pond going around the end of Feb. I put in Beckett Pond KickStart, and Chlorine/Chloramine Remover.
After I got the pond started, it was nice, clean and sparkling. Then the oak trees bloomed and started shedding their pollen. It has fallen and been blown into my pond, and even though I net the pollen blooms and ALL leaves out a few times a day, some pollen goes to the bottom, and has made the water turn an ice tea color (from the tanins in the pollen, from what I have read on this forum). I got a glass of the water and it's clear, no suspended particles in it at all. I can see the bottom of the pond and there is the pollen from the oaks that I didn't get out in time. I don't have any rocks in the bottom of my pond. (Pond is about 8' x 10' x 2' deep.) How I can get rid of the brown color in the water? I have read about using activated carbon to clear the pond; some say it works and some say it doesn't. It's kind of expensive to take a chance on it not working. Is this the best thing for clearing the clear brown water, or is there something else? Also, I looked at pond products online, and see something called pond water flocculants that make the particles clump together and fall to the bottom of the pond, but mine are already on the bottom! Is there any product that will make this stuff just disapear? Will the pollen in the pond keep giving the tanins forever, or will it all eventually leach out? I also have a little foam on the surface, more at night that disapates mostly during the day. It originates at the waterfall. Should I use a defoamer? Should I just drain the pond after all the oak blooms have fallen and start over? Thank you for reading this, and for any advice and help you can give. |
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- Posted by mrshkoiluver (My Page) on Thu, Apr 1, 10 at 20:02
| You really need to scoop or vaccum out the debris on the bottom of the pond. If you vaccum this will also be your water change. If you do this weekly the water will clear up. I have also used activated charcol in a bag and placed it under the water fall. I turn it daily. After the water has cleared I take it out and dry it so I can get more use out of it. |
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| My pond is about the same size as yours. Every spring my ash tree drops these "things" into the pond and my water is tea stained too. I don't do anything to fix it and eventually it goes away. I do run a skippy filter, and have a retro fit settling chamber and I think that might be what helps fix it-- it seems to clear up faster since I put those in. good luck |
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