Pond Care - Muck 

As a fellow pond owner who has major muck issues I can tell you one of the best things you can do is aerate. Don't know what your budget may be, but a small solar aeration system would go a long way towards keeping the muck under control. When your pond is in the woods (like mine) you will always be fighting the leaves accumulating every fall. I used an herbicide called Clipper which completely eliminated the water meal (similar to duckweed) that covered my pond with no detrimental effects to the pond life. Best of luck cleaning up your muck mess!

The muck away does work We’ve used it for a few years. Taking weeds out with a cable and harrow - pulling it with the tractor- is allot of work on a 1/2 acre pond. A pond is more work than a swimming pool but if you don’t keep up on it you’ll eventually have a swamp

Thanks for muck

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Loved this video! Very informative!

How large is your pond. Regarding muck, i think you have to dredge it, or mechanically remove it. The chemicals will never remove that much. Regarding the duckweed. You can spray it, but it is extremely hard to get it and it just keeps multiplying. We bought 150 gold fish feeders from the pet store. We put them in in summer and next year when the duckweed started popping up the fish kept it in control. They love to eat it. Not grass carp, gold fish. Koi live it too but dont get any. Your going to need to plant pond plants to take up all the nutrients you have, and koi love to destroy pond plants. If you dont, when the duckweed is gone, your going to have algae like crazy cuz the nutrients wont be going to the duckweed anymore. Good luck, its a great learning experience. If your concerned about goldfish multiplying like crazy, when you add Bass they will knock diwn their numbers. Good luck

You’re cute!❤ Isn’t it just easier to take the muck out of the pond? There are special pumps for that. Or just by digging it out.

where is the result shot?

Maybe I missed it, but what are those tablets you''re throwing in?

Lovely video 🙂

I wear rubber gloves when I throw pellets in.

Chickens will eat duckweed. Scoop it up and serve

In a million years give or take that will turn into oil.