RM is correct I have air setup and still have FA. In the spring in March and April I get quite a bit of it. Most times will will float to one side of my pond with the wind and I will put some hip boots on and rake it out. It doesn't take long to rake as you can get a LOT of it at one time with the right rake.
Lots of times if you have a hard rain it will knock it down also and it will go away for a while. Once you rake it up onto the shore it wont take long and it will dry up and it's like dried up hair. Not much to it once it drys up.
The odd thing is you said your pond is only a few weeks old. So you can't have a bunch of build up on your pond bottom. So it has to be coming from where ever your pond water is running into your pond I would guess.
I will always have this problem to some degree as part of my run off comes from my neighbors cattle field. He don't have many cows and he does rotate them around but still I know that's where my nutrients is coming from. Plus my pond bottom has been neglected for many many years before I bought my place 4 years ago. Like the guys said don't freak out about it it's kinda normal. It don't look very good that's for sure but it not going to hurt your pond real bad either. You just need to come up with a happy medium as to how to control it.
Whether that's with Curtrine, or Talipia, or some sort of dye/ or plants/ or what. The question is what works best for your pond? And no one here will know that for sure. That's up to you to figure out through some trial and error.
RC
Last edited by RC51; 05/28/14 08:48 AM.
