New Pond...Green Water!?!
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Comments (5)Thank you, Lisa. Horton, I am confused; don't I need to rinse the gunk out of the filter in the skimmer? I used a piece of air conditioner filter. It gets full of the algae, so I thought I needed to rinse this out. I don't have pea green soup and the water has the blue hue as I added a colorant. I just have the gunk on the bottom, some bright green algae in the falls and around the bottom of the hand pump where the water hits the surface of the pond. I clean this when it gets too much with a toilet brush. When I clean the pressurized filter (about every two weeks) I rinse the filter pads with a hose and the bio balls I leave inside the tank and rinse with pond water by just sloshing it around some and dump it out (no fresh water hits these). I have well water. I have 2 5-6inch koi, 12 3-4 inch feeder goldfish. I don't feed the fish but maybe one a week and it is only a pinch. There should be enough larvae, etc for them to eat in the pond. I am more wondering about the crud drifting on the bottom. Thanks for all the help....See MoreWhen you repot a new AV, do you water the soil or water after potting
Comments (6)Thank you, Irina! I am happy to have found this board, as it seems I have found AV experts here! I have enjoyed reading other posts for info and all your good advice to others too. My husband and I just bought our very first home last August, so this has opened up the world of plants and gardening! I have always felt I couldn't work with plants, that I would kill them all, but so far I have even got begonias going strong. I realized I just need to pay attention and follow directions! :) In the past, I think I killed plants because I wasn't attentive to their individual needs. Really excited about getting this violet going. I bought soil and perlite at home depot today, but both have miracle grow. I was worried about how to deal with that as far as knowing when to start giving AV food. I considered going to the nursery tomorrow to find mix and perlite w/o additives. If I do use the miracle grow, your advice to wait a few months is perfect. I will update with pictures! :) --la...See MoreWater pressure came down after a new water softner was installed
Comments (1)Since you just got it installed - call the installer....See MoreNew Hot Water Heater ...No water
Comments (4)If you paid for an install, it's on the installer to leave it in operating condition. Having said that, any valves that were turned off and aren't turned on should be in plain sight, starting with the valves that are probably right in the vicinity of the inlet and outlet lines on top of the tank....See Morepcan
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