Spring Time In Your Water Garden Pond

Spring is the time of year in the water gardening calendar that many pond keepers start to experience pond hassles and problems. The warmer pond temperatures encourage bacterial fish disease problems such as ulcers.

Now is the time to change the UV lamp, prior to placing the UV back into your garden fish pond. UV lamps typically last about 8000 hours; less than a year. Failure to replace the lamp will seriously affect the UV clarifiers ability to destroy green pond algae as it will not emit enough UV light.

The increase of green pond water is a direct result of increased natural sunlight, increased fish feeding and the resulting rise in the levels of nutrients in the fish pond.

Spring Pond Care Tips And Advice

Pond plants are starting to bloom and develop new growth. Now is the time to divide your hardy water lilies and other pond plants. You can also add an aquatic plant growth food into each new basket.

If you had previously installed pond lighting products last season, you can safely put them back into the fish pond.

Check the water quality. Many serious fish keepers will do a partial water change of up to one third in order to dilute any build up of salts and chemicals they may have been adding.

As the water temperature gets nearer to 10 Celsius you can start feed the Koi and other pond fish with a quality pond fish food.

If you have a garden and are contemplating using pesticides or chemical fertilizers then please be careful not to allow any run off get into your garden fish pond. Pesticides are not only poisonous to your Koi, goldfish and other aquatic life but are detrimental to the nitrifying bacteria.

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