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mpgt · #1 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 02:58 PM

I have a 200 gallon pond. I just got a new filter with a UV bulb in it. The water is crystal clear, but I keep finding these clumps of slimy algae floating on top of the water. I can easily scoop them out with the net, so the filter doesn't fill up with them. The company I bought the filter from said the UV light kills the suspended algae in the green water and makes it clump up so it can be filtered out. Is that what's causing all this stuff floating on the surface now? I'm not complaining, because the water is clean now. I was just wondering.

Stargazer · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 03:01 PM

I have no idea. But just wondering, do you keep any critters in the pond? Maybe a little anaconda would like living there!

mpgt · #3 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 03:10 PM

I used to have some cool frogs that lived there until my cat noticed them. I think she orchestrated their demise because they disappeared and never came back. A medium sized anaconda would take care of the cat problem, and maybe even the neighbor's dog that thought it was his private bath last year and kept making it such a mess. The top half is a bog full of plants. A pair of toads found it and put 10 million little squirmers in there. I can't wait for them to grow legs and leave home so I can filter that part of the pond again. The main part of the pond just has a large goldfish, a bunch of minnows to eat mosquitoes, and a fishing spider or 2.

spike06 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 03:18 PM

u should get a few kois. they are beautiful fish when they get large

mpgt · #5 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 03:24 PM

Koi are cool, but there's not much room in my small pond. I had a pair of ghost koi once, that bred when they were only about 4-5" long! I couldn't believe it. I've been thinking about getting them again. I just wonder if my goldfish would be territorial and beat up the new roommates if they were smaller. He's about 7" long, and has been in there for about 5 years.