Cat watch!

Seems I've been either doing or re-doing a pond for the last decade! yours looks wonderful. Fishies appear to be about the same size as mine..although mine are in an aq. at the moment. My cat sits beside the aq...like a tennis fan...back and forth...back and forth. lol.

This made me laugh as its exactly what my cat does. your water looks good, is it a natural pond?

Wow! What a beautiful photo! Like painting. Nominated for GoYpedia.:)))

goodness Kat, thanks - didn't think it was anything special!!

Not a natural pond Drc, but that was when we had a flexible liner & the shape looked more natural then. Water was good then, but at the moment - IT IS NOT GOOD!! :( - lot of green slimey weed! I have a barley straw bag in there & an oxygenator, but neither seem to be clearing it! Will it ever be clear again I ask myself?!! Probably not.

Awwww

Sorry SW, I meant do you use a pump? I dont have a pump and I use barley straw bags 2 every 6 months and only top up with rain water. I think barley works, but at times if its sunny the pond can be a bit green for a couple of weeks.

My pond does get a lot of green at the mo'. I try & pull it out & it's better for a while, but soon gets green again!!

get some pond weed? i got some from Dobbies..it keeps it quite clear when i dont have the pump on. But i also get a stick and wheeck some out too :)

We have had pond weed, but most of it died last winter I think & there is very little in there now & what there is gets clogged with this other green slimey yuk!!
I love that word 'wheeck' - wonderful verb - 'to wheeck'!! It ought to be in general use - Ha!!
I guess it is Scottish.
I wheecked some out with a childs' garden rake! does the job quite well.

poor fish:-(((

They did very well for several years Junna, but I must admit the cat had a couple! I remember one white one was still alive on the lawn, so I put it back in the pond & it lived for ages after that.The heron had a lot though I think & eventually through one thing & another they all died out & we don't have any at all now.
The last two that were left succumbed to that very cold winter we had a few years ago! We haven't bought any more since because the pond is not as good as it used to be. I do miss having them in there tho', lovely to watch them swimming around & I used to love see the tiny wee ones growing up.

made me smile, Shirl...the tiny fish just starting out. first time I saw the little gray shadows I wondered where they came from! lol.... then as they matured they turned the lovely orange or orange-white combo. The fishies in my aq. are accustomed to feeding time...all I have to do is walk by the tank and they whip the water into a froth! delightful creatures.

lovely!
I don't have an aquarium, but we had a couple of fish in a tank once that the kids won at the fair!!
They lived for quite a while considering!!
That's the fish of course - not the kids!!! They are still going strong!!!:)))))

Pond Clear Shirl, that will get rid of it, don't run the pump if you have one until, it's all collected and dropped to the bottom...you just mix it into a watering can, and water the pond...

I must have a go at that Sue, see if it does the trick.
What happens to it when it's dropped to the bottom of the pond tho'? Do I have to fish it out?
I yanked out a load of the horrible stuff the other day, really slimy & yuk!! Usually if I leave it on the gravel at the side of the pond it dries out & I put it on the compost, but with all this rain it is still lying there green & slimey, so I think I will just bung it in our green garden wheely bin.

If you can get the weed out, and leave the Algae, that will drop to the bottom and stay down there...then don't use your pump for a couple of days...Have you got a net, that will yank it out quick for you...

We don't have a pump at the moment, it gave up the ghost this year!! Probably full of lime scale (dreadful in this area). I have got a solar oxygenator which works very well when the sun is shining, but no batteries in it, so with no sunshine it stops working!!
I also have a barley straw bag in there at the mo'.

goldfish are algae feeders ...they will eat the good algae but it sounds like you have the filamentous type... it can be a curse. give filamentous algae a google ...you'll get a broader description and lots more info to check out than I could write up here. Good luck, Shirl.

ohioline.osu.edu/a-fact/pdf/A_3_09.pdf
maybe this fact sheet will be of use?