Please help me identify and get rid of this mess.. - 04/08/16 06:46 PM
Hello...my name is Nathan and I live in Southeast Tx. I bought this property 5yrs ago to build my house on and it had a small pond on it already. We needed more dirt for house pad and decided to dig a second pond next to the existing one and connect them after we had enough dirt to build on. Last year we started getting some nasty algae and a few weeds on the western edges of of the pond. I didn't want to throw any chemicals in the pond due to 2 horses and 5 goats drinking out of it and we also use it as summertime swimming hole for the family. I removed a huge majority of it with a grass rake and drug it out of the pond and the goats loved it!! I did dye it blue for the last 3 years during the summer months only for eye appeal and have dyed it already this year but had some really torrential down pours a month or so ago and lost my coloring but plan on dying it again this afternoon. This year is double the amount of nastiness that it was last year, and the years prior to that it seemed to dissipate once the dye went in it during early spring and maybe again at the beginning of the summer.I have not stocked it yet but there are a few LMB and BG or little perch that I can watch jump in the evenings and sometimes see as I walk around the bank. Lots of minnows and bullfrogs as well.
After looking online for a month or so and reading on here I want to make sure I do the right thing to rid my pond of this junk. Can somebody please please PLEASE help me ID this stuff and point me in the right direction of how to get rid of it?? I know there are chemicals I can use now to help me out but if I use the wrong thing and end up with a sick or dead horse then the wife and daughter (the actual horse people in the family) would definitely make me sleep in the back pasture..lol..just kidding, but i definitely don't want to hurt any animals or us when we swim this year.
Any and all the help I can get would be much appreciated. ..thanks in advance
After looking online for a month or so and reading on here I want to make sure I do the right thing to rid my pond of this junk. Can somebody please please PLEASE help me ID this stuff and point me in the right direction of how to get rid of it?? I know there are chemicals I can use now to help me out but if I use the wrong thing and end up with a sick or dead horse then the wife and daughter (the actual horse people in the family) would definitely make me sleep in the back pasture..lol..just kidding, but i definitely don't want to hurt any animals or us when we swim this year.
Any and all the help I can get would be much appreciated. ..thanks in advance