Originally Posted by
BarbJ
Also you need lots of aeration when using Algaefix, and you need to net out or otherwise get out the dead algae as soon as you can. The filter will take care of the rest, and then clean the filter in 3 days.
The other problem people can have is that dead algae uses up a lot of oxygen, so don't use it on hot days, tons of aeration and pull out as much dead algae as possible.
I had that floating particle algae, so much that it looked like green pea soup algae, but when you took some water out in a glass it was clear, but with tiny to small clumps of algae. It's a slimy kind, I think it's blanket algae, the kind that floats in islands in a lot of ponds, and was like that in my old pond, but I have so much current and air that it doesn't get to congregate into larger clumps and float, so it instead flows around as little bits.
3rd day into Algaefix treatment and I can see almost 4' down in a 5' foot pond. Three days ago it was about 8" of visibility.