Pond algea

[farmer2009]

Ok. So I know this has been on here before but how about new insight and updates.

What do you do for algae?
Mine is to the pint to which I can't control it. I don't have control over all of the water shed. Having tried everything else except an aerator. I have been temped to chlorinate the whole pond to kill it.

Been online and that's confusing. No power at pond but have thought of solar down there.

 

[keegs]

Have you been to pondboss.com?

 

[brin]

I don't have control over all of the water shed.

Based on this...I don't think anything you do will last....There are pond chemicals you can buy that will kill algae...expensive, tractor supply here has them and you can find them on line...but if you have no control over the water shed then, I think it is a waste...Have you contacted your county agent..?

 

[farmer2009]

Have you been to pondboss.com?

Currently trying to sort through it. There is as much on that site as there is here.

 

[farmer2009]

Based on this...I don't think anything you do will last....There are pond chemicals you can buy that will kill algae...expensive, tractor supply here has them and you can find them on line...but if you have no control over the water shed then, I think it is a waste...Have you contacted your county agent..?

I have bought everything rural king and tsc have to offer for it. Used maximum label rates for application and year. County agent sent me to see the fisheries biologist for the state fish and game for my area. He said go to rural king and repeat.

My problem isn't floating algae. As I can keep that under control. Mine is submerged algae that my pump sucks in and clogs my filters. Have gas chorine for chlorination and it kills it. But then has to be filtered out. I doubled my filtering capacity and still can't make it through the day. I need 24 hours of filtering then I regenerate my filters.

 

[brin]

I have bought everything rural king and tsc have to offer for it. Used maximum label rates for application and year. County agent sent me to see the fisheries biologist for the state fish and game for my area. He said go to rural king and repeat.

My problem isn't floating algae. As I can keep that under control. Mine is submerged algae that my pump sucks in and clogs my filters. Have gas chorine for chlorination and it kills it. But then has to be filtered out. I doubled my filtering capacity and still can't make it through the day. I need 24 hours of filtering then I regenerate my filters.

My problem isn't floating algae

OK....I can help with that....I had the same problem with my lake and I bought 6 Sterile Grass Carp for a 2 ac. lake and my problem was finally solved...I highly recommend the sterile grass carp....It sure worked for me...! Good Luck with it....

 

[farmer2009]

OK....I can help with that....I had the same problem with my lake and I bought 6 Sterile Grass Carp for a 2 ac. lake and my problem was finally solved...I highly recommend the sterile grass carp....It sure worked for me...! Good Luck with it....

I will give it a try. Been a few years since I added any. How often must you add them? Now I bet it's spring before the fish truck runs again.

 

[murphy1244]

Brin is right! Grass Carp will do it. I add two every other year as the older they get, the less they eat.

 

[robbyr]

On a smaller scale we put goldfish in our water troughs. Same principal right?

 

[robbyr]

I remember as a teenager my step dad used to put carmex in our pond. It was a powder for cattle and killed the algae but I think it got taken off the market? Not sure if it was harmful to fish.