Water Features and Garden Fish Pond Tips, Ideas, Solutions
Never switch off your pond pump for more than about 60 minutes if you keep fish - the biofilter is starved of oxygen. For this reason two smaller pond pumps are often a better choice than a single larger pond pump.
The main reason for a biofilter in a pond is NOT to filter the solids out of the water. It is to purify the water by removing offending chemicals. These chemicals are actually produced by the fish themselves by virtue of their normal breathing, eating and toilet behaviour. Biofilters need a continuous supply of oxygen sourced from that dissolved in circulating pond water.
At higher temperatures oxygen concentration in water falls. In high summer this can create serious problems if there is a lot of green algae in the pond.
Do not buy fish food with more than 10% ash in it unless you know why. Read the label. If no label BE CAREFUL of quality.
Gold fish food or koi food bought in stick form is normally money wasted and offers no real benefit to the fish. It is the analysis of the food that is important not the physical shape. Gold fish food or koi food in stick form was developed before pellets could float - this is the reason gold fish food or koi food sticks were invented.
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