Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Bad algae? Orange..

We came up to the pond for the weekend. Thought we’d swim and fish. However, the pond is covered with a weird orange algae. I haven’t seen it before. I suspect the guys farming our bean fields had applied fertilizer, and possibly weed killer right before a 4.5” hard rain hit a few days ago.
Anyone know if this is a dangerous algae to swim in? Hopefully it’ll just go away on its own.
Thanks,
Jeff

[img]https://photos.app.goo.gl/ATtz6y5mSZGhuKqp8[/img]

I gave imagur a shot.
[img]https://imgur.com/a/lNjWM95[/img]

Hopefully it works.
Thanks


I think it’s working. I’ll try a pic of the orange algae. Hopefully it’s not dangerous to swim in.

[img]https://imgur.com/qLnsqTP[/img]

[img]https://imgur.com/a/eRJYIyz[/img]

A possibility on the algae is that it is dust or pollen that has blown onto pond. Not sure just a idea.

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Great news on the explosion of growth in your pond of all types.

How did you source your shrimp and how did you get them to survive? I'm really thrilled they established by you. I'm afraid without the right kind of hardness in the water or vegetation I'll never see that survival. I'm assuming your water temps get cold enough to get skim of ice on pond? You must have PK shrimp then.

I'm also happy to see after a long wait and no luck on adult HSB that your new stockers are growing like crazy. You also prove that SMB and HSB can do well together in your size pond.

HSB are nice in that way that you know how many you put in, they don't reproduce so you know how many you should be catching and at what size.

Thanks for the backstory on the shrimp. You got them from Carol F and I also was lucky enough to get a few from her. Mine seemed to last about one season and then fade out. Probably not the right water chemistry and underwater vegetation. I am dedicated to keep trying. I'll PM you

I do have lots of trees and way too many leaves on the bottom all the time. The last 2 years FA has exploded and I'm raking nonstop. I hope you don't get into that trouble.

Walleye sound like a great addition to the SMB.

Catch those large GSH and leave them on the bank. They tend to put the hurt on the young YP fry. Since my GSH got large I'm getting almost not YP recruitment. Scads of eggs, no babies. I'm seeing more YP eggs not get fertilized so my daddy perch might need some fishy viagra or something.

or...like you it is likely time to start with a new batch of fresh 4-6" YP stockers.

I'd love to see you get a different shiner species started (common, emerald, spotfin etc) We should work a deal and I swap my countless spotfins for another shot at stocking your PK shrimp. I also have lots of green frogs but no bullfrogs. Your pond excels at bullfrogs!)

Thanks for the update and hope you can use the normal process to attach pictures without using imgur if the forum software is fixed. I assume your algae is a healthy thing, a temporary bloom plus pollen and that it will blow around and settle.

Jeez, has it been that long? How time flies!