Re: [GSAS-Member] Pond Algae is a hairy problem

[Linda Knapp <linda@bozuk.org>]

OK = I will take algae over raccoons any day - I have them tearing  
apart any plant I get as soon as it starts to look good.  I found a  
ultrasound repeller -

http://tinyurl.com/6z9jp5

Have any of you tried something like this?

Linda

On Jul 11, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Steev Ward wrote:

> I've heard several people say that the long thin hair algae  
> (Spirogyra? Zygnema?)
> doesn't like salt, and that you can add the right amount of salt  
> that will stop it from
> growing but not bother the other plants. But you never know how  
> that's going to work in
> reality.
>
> The biological additves are often recommended under the assumption  
> that better
> biological filtration can take away the nurients that the algae  
> need. I have a big gob
> of some tall grass-like plant in my pond that seems to compete well  
> with the algae.
>
> Steev
>
> --- Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com> wrote:
>
>> You can have all the azolla you want (wink)....I'm CONSTANTLY  
>> netting off
>> huge batches and tossing it over the fence to the poultry in order  
>> to even
>> SEE my shubunkins in the 100g stock tank. The goldfish don't seem  
>> to like
>> to eat this floater whereas duckweed is soon eliminated. It's kind  
>> fun to
>> watch the 'submarine' shubunkin inhaling duckweed at the  
>> surface...he/she
>> looks like some kind of huge underwater monster. IF I could  
>> actually SEE
>> his/her whole body, he/she might actually be pretty!
>>
>> Betty Goetz
>>
>>> Thanks Cliff and Betty,
>>>
>>> I agree plants would definitely be a good direction.  Right now  
>>> the pond
>>> is about 1/3 covered with Water Hyacinth, water lettuce, lillies,  
>>> frog
>>> bit and duckweed. There are numerous other plants in the pond as  
>>> well,
>>> but, not ones that cover the surface.  The pond gets sun all day,  
>>> full
>>> sun.  I agree chemicals are not desirable either.  Do either of  
>>> you know
>>> where one might get inexpensive plants for the pond?  I think the
>>> surface needs to be more covered than it is.
>>>
>>> Clay
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
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