Harvesting a big number of fish from the pond will help remove nutrients. Then feeding the fish a lot less fish food could help reduce the next crop of FA - maybe. Remember that using the algaecide killing the FA sends it to the bottom to decompose. You know what is mainly in the dead algae chlorophyll, cellulose and nutrients. You know what nutrients do - right? Explore the possibility of adding some tilapia as 6 - 8 lbs of mixed gender individuals next year to help eat some of that FA. You can then eat some of those algae eating tilapia. You can't eat copper sulfate.
If with tilapia next year and you still have lots of FA then you should have added 10 to 15 lbs of tilapia. Each fish can bodily eat only just so much FA per day.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 07/29/25 07:39 PM.
