Garden water features, ponds, fountains
Green Pond Water In Florida USA
A person in Florida wrote to me with an interesting observation which I would like to share with everyone.
Readers who have been with me since the beginning and who have read my book will understand that it is totally unnecessary to have a green pea-soup like pond. It is also unnecessary to keep adding chemicals to kill the algae responsible.
Florida temperatures are very pleasant year round. Apparently the general advice is to build ponds about 18 inches deep. This is a bit on the shallow side but OK. The trouble with shallow ponds is that they go through significant temperature cycles. They warm up quickly and cool down quickly.
Fish are not fond of change ... they like steady state systems.
In Florida ponds would tend to remain at a relatively high temperatures.
Goldfish and koi like warmth. Algae also like warm water and sunny climates. As such ponds would have a tendency to green easily and quickly in Florida type climates. This is what the reader and her friends had experienced and had begun to accept as being normal.
The Florida resident through reading my book learned about UV and is now well on her way to enjoying her pond the way it should be enjoyed.
There is no reason why any pond should not have crystal clear water all year round. The solution is simple, effective and not too expensive.
I have no doubt this lady will now provide really good practical advice to her friends and make pondkeeping for those friends the pleasure it was meant to be.
I remain amazed that so few people are aware of the Blue Light Miracle Worker.
An UV clarifier or sterilizer as some people call them is an absolutely essential component of an effective fish pond installation. I am amazed because most pond keepers have the pea-soup problem year in and year out. Because they just do not know about UV.
Does the problem lie with us in the trade either retail or wholesale?
Is the reason the preference to sell chemicals (a temporary solution at best) rather than provide the consumer with the best advice and good case studies?
Is there just insufficient simple believable information available out there?
Pond keeping is fun, it is simple, low cost and rewarding if done properly.......
The alternative is a stinking, expensive green or murky brown eye-sore.
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