Hello to all,
Yesterday I found our pond had floating black algae in it. It looks awful. If you try to break up these clumps they crumble into small pieces. We do have a skimmer on the pond outlet which is actually the overflow pipe which collects it and drains into the creek bed. We never had this kind of algae before. I do not use any chemicals at all in the pond. We are going to aerate with our neighbors windmill and hopefully this will help with the "stringy type algae" too. Perhaps we should chemically treat this black algae before it spreads, or maybe it is all over the bottom of the pond already? Our pond is about 60 x 80 ft, with sides that gradually slope in. It is about 15 ft at its deepest point. We recently put in about 55 bluegills which are now spawning and 2 bass which are about 8"long. This is the first time we have put fish in our pond, as it was recently redug ( last August ) I presume they eat the creek chubs as there population has diminished drastically. They too have spawned in the pond. There are numerous pollywogs also, and a couple of painted turtles. All of the above seem to be doing fine so I suppose the water chemistry must be ok. Thanks Kay

Kay