Pond problems how to solve?? Watermeal!!!

[Nilesw]

Not sure this is tractor realated but I thought yall might be able to help me.I have a piece of property in Douglas county georgia with a 1-1.5 acre pond that has watermeal on the surface and I can't seem to get rid of it. I have tried a quart of Avast/sonar 6 weeks ago. Can anyone help me out?? Anyone deal with this stuff?? Apparently it is a big problem and hard to control. Anyone?

 

[Glenn9643]

I'm not familiar with watermeal, but is it the same as or similar to duckweed? Either way, you might find something at these sites:
http://www.pondboss.com/

http://www.mdwfp.com/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=5
http://county.ces.uga.edu/habersham/aqua/pondmanagement.html
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/srac/fslist.htm

 

[Nilesw]

It is always mentioned in the same breathe as duckweed but it is not exactly the same thing. Thanks for the links.

 

[fishman]

Niles,

As I recall the chemicals to use would be a Reward/Sonar mixture, but I don't know the exact rates off the top of my head. Let me check my records and I'll get back with you. I should be able to help you out.

Sonar takes a long time to work, so there is still hope.

 

[JRobyn]

I had the same problem in my pond in central TN. Tried a bunch of various chemicals at various concentrations with little effect. Maybe I finally got enough horse/donkey pee in it to kill the crap, but I'd like to think the swimming pool chlorine tabs I threw in helped! My pond is about 50'x70' and only a few feet deep. It is the only drinking water source for the stock, so I needed to be very careful with concentrations. This was hard to do considering I was guessing! I used either 3 or 4 of the big 3" chlorine tabs from Home Depot... just chunked them in, distributed around the edges, but far enough in to not be right where the stock drink. I repeated the application about every 2-3 weeks over the last half of last summer. My guess is that the tabs sink into the muck at the bottom and release fairly slowly.

 

[Nilesw]

nah not sure that chlorine is what i want to do as there are some pretty nice size fish in the pond that might protest that /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif