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Archive for the ‘Pond Repairs’ Category
How-To Clear green Pond Water
Reasons Why Your Pond Water May Be Green
1. You have more organic matter (such as dead leaves, fish wastes, muck, sludge, etc.) in
your pond than what your biological filter (where beneficial bacteria live and thrive) can handle.
If this is the case, you may either need to increase the size of your biological filter which is basically one of two things; the surface area within the pond that beneficial bacteria grows on, or the amount of beneficial bacteria added to the pond.
You should be adding beneficial bacteria on a regular basis in your pond. For ponds less than 50′ x 50′ in size, you can use Microbe Lift. For ponds and lakes larger than 50′ x 50′ in size, or approx. 250 square feet, you can use PlanktoniX. Both are great beneficial bacteria products and are all-natural.
2. You are adding water to it constantly and not letting the pond find it’s ecological balance in between. Read the rest of this entry »
This happen to us last year and it was a complete pain to find where the water was going. We would fill the pond and it would appear to be fine for a day or two and then just boom over night it would be all most dry. Here is what I did to find the leaks. Turn off your pump. Clean out the pond try to get most of the grim and dirt out of the pond. Then let things settle wait for the water to clear. once your pond is still and you can see to the bottom take a class of milk and if you have an Idea of where you think the leak is pour very gently a small amount of milk in that area and watch where the milk goes. With any luck the leak will revile its self by the milk traveling to the leaking liner. Then you can choose the method you want to repair the liner.
If its a small hole between 0 to 3/4 of an inch you can use a liner patch kit that you can find at your local supply and hardware store in most cities. or online (Here is a link to one of the popular repair kits from Amazon.com)
