Algae, is a vital part of the ponds ecosystem so we shouldn't be too worried if we see small amounts appear in the spring. Certainly, we shouldn't deploy chemical algae inhibitors as it can lead to unforeseen results.
Thanks for making this video. My orgamic pond is coming up to one year old and while it was perfectly clear all last year, it's got quite a bit of string algae at the moment. The grass snakes are loving it, but I can't wait for the plants to out compete it.
I'm approaching my 2nd summer with a completed pool. Mine is inside a huge commercial polytunnel so keeps quite warm. Year one saw HUGE amounts of algae. I mean a wheelbarrow full pulled out each day. Once the plants kicked in, it calmed down a lot. I put in a small amount of blue dye to check the colour of the water I was pumping out from under the liner... a leak indicator. This year, the margins and planted area have been almost free of alga and full of damselfly/dragonfly nymphs and other larvae... zero mosquitoes... not one spotted. Last year we had to use a couple of donuts to kill the larvae because there were millions! All looks perfect... until I started the bottom of the swim area . 2.5M down there is a thick blanket of filamentacius algae... back to the wheelbarrow!
Thanks David. I love your clips. Wish you made them more often. I'm about 6 months from building mine. I want to wait until after the rainy season to start construction. I have three major concerns.... 1) In Thailand..... It looks like the only liners I can get will require having seams and I'm not sure or their reliability. 2) Snakes. 3) Tadpoles..... Millions of tadpoles makes millions of frogs which brings SNAKES. Thailand has many poisonous vipers. The bright side???? In Thailand, this project will be so inexpensive that if any of the above proves to be a disaster, I can push everything to the middle, bury it and grow papaya trees instead.
I have a raised concrete pond, 50cm above ground level, and it's impossible for snakes to climb its smooth vertical edges. In three years I've never seen one get close to it, despite the fact that I would really like to have them around. If you're concerned about them you could adopt a similar solution.
@@nautilus2612 Not an option.... I appreciate the suggestion. In the rice village that I live in, it would be a cultural clash that would be permitted but never accepted. A pond will be accepted. Almost unnoticed. Thanks again.
@@MrRobertBatchelor That's my hope. I'm planning to keep a 1 meter "buffer" between the swim zone and the planted zone..... a "no swim" zone. They're not tigers. They don't swim out and attack. They only strike when prey is close or danger is close. I don't have a plan for a gazillion tadpoles, except a fine mesh net on a 3 meter pole and regular scooping.
@@franram7426 I’d also think that as the water won’t have any nutrients in it as the plants will be eating it all then it wouldn’t make sense for frogs to lay their babies in there.
