Spring Cleaning-Your Pond

Your Pond When the water begins to warm and Ice is all melted now is a good time to get the pond going (Make sure the temps are going to stay above 40 Degrees and not drop back down below freezing.

Anything that you had done for winter you can un-do it now like turn your pump on and get the water circulating and begin air rating.

If you have fish in your pond you can begin feeding them if the water temp is a constant 50 degrees start with a cold weather food until the water reaches a steady 60 degrees or above then switch to a normal full season feeding.

You need to remove any old foliage and stuff from the fall that may have wandered in to your pond. Old leaves and stick start to break down and promote high levels of bacteria that can be hard on your fish and plants. So you want to get this removed soon Using a Pond Skimmer Networks well for doing this Or you can buy a pond vac. If your pond is full of leaves and gunk you can use some pond products that help speed up the braek drown Eco Labs Liquid Sludge Away

Eco Labs NITE32 Microbe Lift Nite Out Nutrifying Bacteria

If there is a lot of sludge and Gunk in your pond that you can’t remove, you may need to do a complete cleaning this means emptying all the water out of your pond. Hopefully this is not needed because by removing all the water in the pond distory the natural Eco that was established so if this is necessary use the read the fallowing method.

Best thing to do to help your pond recover a little faster is to pump some of the water into a holding tank of some kind.You could use a empty rain barrel Be careful not to get the sludge just the water from the surface is what you want. If you have fish to take out put water in a large container for them (Putting them in the rain barrel may make it harder to get them out when the time comes to do so). You will want to cover the tank with fish using a netting to keep the fish from jumping out specially Koi they love to jump. Leaf netting or fish netting your under water plants should be kept in a container of water to.

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