tucker
08-14-2008, 09:52 AM
With being sick for months.....and not being able to do much, the pond has been put on the back burner. The filters weren't cleaned for a couple of months. Gary will help me with any electrical or plumbing, will feed the fish, but not anything else....so the pond has gotten real yukky. I have started trying to clean it....cleaning out the 2 filters, one one day, the other the next, then starting over again. They are disgusting.
We have had ALOT of rain, and some terrible hail storms, and I think this is messing up the water too. You couldn't see anything below the surface - altho now you can see down 1/2 way. I am trying to shop vac a little every day....and its getting better.
The fish tho, are another problem. I will have a lily open, and the next day its gone. The fish are destroying the lilies...and I don't know why. If they are not fed by 3, they start on the lilies, buds and leaves. Bad, bad, fish. So, all the little pieces are somewhere on the bottom.
I am trying to add new water every day.....a couple hundred gallons (on a well).
This morning, I added some PP (I know, I know) and will do a second dose later. Hopefully this will help some.
I just don't know what else to do. I can't get in the pond to take out the lilies.....so they will continue to be destroyed.
I just wish I felt a little better.......gotta get this pond clean before winter sets in...
We have had ALOT of rain, and some terrible hail storms, and I think this is messing up the water too. You couldn't see anything below the surface - altho now you can see down 1/2 way. I am trying to shop vac a little every day....and its getting better.
The fish tho, are another problem. I will have a lily open, and the next day its gone. The fish are destroying the lilies...and I don't know why. If they are not fed by 3, they start on the lilies, buds and leaves. Bad, bad, fish. So, all the little pieces are somewhere on the bottom.
I am trying to add new water every day.....a couple hundred gallons (on a well).
This morning, I added some PP (I know, I know) and will do a second dose later. Hopefully this will help some.
I just don't know what else to do. I can't get in the pond to take out the lilies.....so they will continue to be destroyed.
I just wish I felt a little better.......gotta get this pond clean before winter sets in...