Pond Algae Control
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Reduce the sunlight that your pond receives.
Reduce the sunlight by adding shade to your garden pond. A fifty to
sixty five percent degree of sunlight will clear up the pond water.
This may be accomplished buy adding shade trees or an ardor to the
landscape surrounding your pond. But this may not be practical or
desirable for your pond or the landscape. These degrees in sunlight may
also affect your aquatic plants or the overall look of the pond.
Pond algae control by reducing the nutrients.
By reducing nutrients in the water you will reduce the food source for
algae to bloom. But when you feed the fish or fertilize your aquatic
plants this will also feed algae that is in the pond water as well. A
biological filter will have no effect on the level of nutrients in the
water. A biological filter is not capable of removing nutrients it only
converts ammonia to nitrate, which is still nitrogen: a good food
source for algae.
Controlling pond algae with aquatic pond plants.
Aquatic pond plants will also reduce algae in your pond. Pond plants
act as natural oxygenators and submerged aquatic plants can be the best
at this. Plant life converts carbon dioxide into oxygen and submerged
aquatic plants are very good at competing for carbon dioxide and
providing oxygen rich water that starves algae. Not only do they
provide oxygen to the water, they will also compete with the algae for
nutrients. Garden ponds need aquatic plants for a healthy balance.
Chemical treatments such as pond algaecides.
Pond algae control with natural algaecides.
Pond algae control with a UV sterilizer.
Do you have some good tips or techniques on controlling algae in garden ponds?
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