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Your Pond In Spring
As the weather warms up, the water temperature will rise and the pond life that has been dormant during the winter hibernation will start to wake up and become active. If you have a biological filter...
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Your Pond in Summer
Your Pond in Summer At long last it’s warm enough to sit outside and enjoy watching the wildlife your pond has attracted. You just need to keep on top of things. Trim off any dead leaves or flowers...
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Your Pond in Autumn
It is our belief that the less you do manually to a pond the better; however, there is a minimum amount of autumn maintenance that needs to be done before the winter hibernation starts. Cut back any...
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What is Blanket Weed and how can we control it?
Blanket weed is a type of algae. There are over 20,000 different named species of algae, so working out which one you have is understandably tricky! Monocellular algae is the type that turns the...
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Acidity/Alkalinity and pH levels in Ponds
pH stands for Potential Hydrogen. The scale is from 1 to 14 with 1 being acid, 14 being alkaline and 7 being neutral. It is a measure of whether the water in your pond is on the acid side or on the...
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Oxygen Levels in your Pond
I think we all know that oxygen is vital to animal and plant life. The colder the water the higher the oxygen levels, which is why ponds suffer more in the summer months because oxygen levels plummet...
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Duckweed control
Duckweed, otherwise known as Lemna Minor, is that tiny little leaf that floats all over the surface of the water. Although it only has small roots that dangle down into the water, it’s the build up...
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Green pond water control
Green water is caused by a mono cellular algae. It thrives in water which is rich in nutrient and also in sunlight. As you sprinkle Aquaplancton powder onto your green pond it will turn a paler,...
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How to build a wildlife pond.
Customers who are about to build a pond often phone me for advise, asking things like “Should I add plants to my pond?” “How do I increase the wildlife?” “Do I need a filter?” “How do I help prevent...
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Keeping your fish pond healthy
Now in my experience, wildlife ponds are easier and cheaper to maintain than fish ponds. However lovely your fish are they do produce excrement daily so polluting the water. They eat your plants and...
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