Me Too fish truck, I just filled my pond about a month ago. After a 2 yr. wait for filling by nature,it just did not happen. 1 well later and 43 days and approx. 937,000 gals of wtr.,ye old pond is full. I am curious about why well water does or could cause Golden alga.
Anyway, It is really a sad day to have a fish kill and a second is horrible. I hope you never have another bigharge.
I have not made it down to TPWD in Athens TX just yet, but hope to soon and discuss this issue with them and the different information that has been presented on PB.
My pond has made it through two fall seasons so far without a fish kill. I cannot figure out, in my simple mind, if one pond in my East TX. area had a fish kill and I did not, then what could cause that situation.I have not read about other TX area ponds having the issue as far as PB'ers are concerned. I figure they would post their situation here, as you have.
I see that bigharge is from TX and I know that we are so big a state that we could have several temp,humidity,rainfall etc. differences. That begs the question to me which one or combo made the golden alga grow in your pond. Maybe other factors are fish-load, fish feed as you said,or wtr. composition, has more to do with it? I hope it is finally figured out.
Dave,Sue and RC1 were nice to give us their findings and it appears that this crap just started to show up and kill fish. Maybe we just have to live with, or in this case, die with it. I would assume that there is quite a bit of research in this area. If I get anything to add to this subject from TPWD I will bring it back to share.
It sure would be good to know if just keeping the fish load down in a pond will prevent the Golden alga from happening. It would be good to know if it has happened in a smaller pond with low fish load or even a pond that is just left to its own devices, with no feeder and just a small initial stocking?
I wish I could add advice but as can be seen, I only have questions. I do not want anyone to have a fish kill but it seems that the golden alga issue is about as bad and complete a kill as can be had. Maybe not.
I too hope my ya,ya here does not bring bad mojo to my pond!!
I'll keep reading.
