After thinking about your original post a little more it hit me that yours is a new pond. keep in mind that it will go through one or more transformational stages before it hits some balance.

all the new surfaces in the pond will be colonized with new organisms that prepare the path for what ultimately will be there. Certain early colonizers are natures way of preperation for the next stage.

I would not get in too big of hurry on chemically treating anything just yet.

In the ocean when a ship is sank for an artificial reef or a hurricane tears up some coral so there are bare surfaces, a form of red/green stringy type algae is the first colonizer. It prepares the path for future inhabitants. Always the first thing we see on new surfaces when scuba diving.

Last edited by snrub; 10/05/16 02:42 PM.
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