Thursday, September 25, 2014

Pond maintenance - it needs it.

The pond pumps (waterfall, fountain and bamboo water spout) are cycled through most of the day (every day x 365) off a timer which is connected to a RCD (AKA GFC).

Every two weeks I treat the pond with Aquapro/Aquatec Bionatural Feature Clean Treatment

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which keeps everything looking pretty good all year round.

However over winter what was one a thriving water lettuce died off and seemed to contaminate everything so time for some TLC.
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I’m using the fountain pump to pump water out and the garden hose with flow rate adjusted to bring in fresh water.

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I clean the pond with a small fish net and dust pan brush and let it run for about three hours so we have a few complete water changes. After this I treat the water with the pond cleaner and we are done.






Pond maintenance.

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