Originally Posted by
gatorkoi
you gan give it a place to grow and it will, but it still going to follow the nutrients and grow where you do't want it to as well i have not had to bad in a long time and my pond gets a lot of sun. Figure I am lucky for now but 10 min a day it is pretty easy to keep up with.
The trick is in sizing it properly and providing enough flow and extra light so that it out competes the algae in the pond. You would think algae would still grow everywhere in the system, but it doesn't ...... IF the scrubber is done right.
Originally Posted by
mark622
I think a lot of it has to do with the water supply. I used to live in a bigger city, still had really hard water, the ph was usually around 8.2. Now I live in a little town that is nothing but fields as far as the eye can see (thinking excess phosphates in the water supply from runoff) with a ph that sometimes is close to 9, usually 8.8. Never ever had string algae in my old ponds in the city we used to live in, now it is a constant battle non stop in the pond, it does let up some in the summer when the veggie filter plants are going full strength, but is always present, I even battle it in my fish tanks now, which is a real pain in the butt.
Many city water supplies are loaded with nitrates, phosphates and even ammonia.
Last edited by rbarn; 04-07-2014 at 05:14 PM.
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