Alfonso
Koi Lover
Jan 5, 2001, 7:50 PM
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In my humble experience, my pond suffered from green water the first two weeks, but when the filters were finally stablished the water became crystal clear. After three months of seeing the koi like floating in air, all the pond walls and the floor became to develop filamentous algae (blanket weed), I used to pick up two and a half buckets full of this algae each other day, but following the advice of some of this forum members, I began to make 5% to 7% weekly water changes and major clean of the filters each three months, two months later the blanket weed was gone and only a green colour remains covering the walls and floor, despite the pond receives FULL sun all day and the recirculation rate is 4 times per day. I agree that the green colour gives a natural aspect to the pond, provides valuable food for the fishes and when it begins to grow more than 1 inch is a sign to clean your filters. I also have heard that some filter media like japanese matting needs two years to fully stablish.
Hope this help.
(This post was edited by Alfonso on May 1, 2001, 2:00 PM)
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