I've spent a lot of hours and calories on raking/dragging the filamentateous algae out of my ponds. Although I still do it from time to time, my number one approach is to stay ahead of it with blue dye, and I've had the best luck with Aquashade. It's not a great solution if you have a lot of water exchange, and it takes longer than Cutrine, but if you stay ahead of things it's a great solution. Really glad to hear your comment about limited treatment with Cutrine, I've witnessed two very severe fish kills with over application of Cutrine and also copper sulfate granules. Be careful!
We've used Aquashade also, and like you, have had some success with it. Yeah, manually removing FA is backbreaking work! Absolutely agree on the necessity of treating sections at a time.... bad things can happen if you're too impatient! Thanks for the comment!
Great video. New subscriber. I had the same problem you had. My county agent told me that I had southern Niad, which looks exactly like what you have (mats of floating hair and what looks like clouds floating under the surface. My pond was 75 to 80% covered with it. It dies out in the winter so in the fall I went the grass carp route and put four times the amount of grass carp that I needed and 8 months later they have done absolutely nothing so I resorted to using the herbicide Diquat and completely wiped out my southern Niad in 1 week I don’t know what my carp are surviving on but It’s not southern Niad
Yikes! Grass carp won't touch algae, but they will eat southern niad. Niad has a long slender "stem", kinda like spaghetti noodles, AND, it has very slender leaves. FA doesn't have either one. Diquat is a great choice for Niad, and some algae as well! Glad you have it under control! I would be curious to see if your grass carp start muddying up your water, looking for food, if there's nothing for them to eat.. hopefully not! Thanks for the comment and enjoy your pond!
It's so hot here that this morning, I walked outside and watched a coyote chasing a rabbit....... It's so hot that they were both just walking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pond and small lake maintanance can be a complex issue. Really appreciate you sharing your expertise Tony.
thanks John!
I've spent a lot of hours and calories on raking/dragging the filamentateous algae out of my ponds. Although I still do it from time to time, my number one approach is to stay ahead of it with blue dye, and I've had the best luck with Aquashade. It's not a great solution if you have a lot of water exchange, and it takes longer than Cutrine, but if you stay ahead of things it's a great solution. Really glad to hear your comment about limited treatment with Cutrine, I've witnessed two very severe fish kills with over application of Cutrine and also copper sulfate granules. Be careful!
We've used Aquashade also, and like you, have had some success with it. Yeah, manually removing FA is backbreaking work! Absolutely agree on the necessity of treating sections at a time.... bad things can happen if you're too impatient! Thanks for the comment!
Great video. New subscriber. I had the same problem you had. My county agent told me that I had southern Niad, which looks exactly like what you have (mats of floating hair and what looks like clouds floating under the surface. My pond was 75 to 80% covered with it. It dies out in the winter so in the fall I went the grass carp route and put four times the amount of grass carp that I needed and 8 months later they have done absolutely nothing so I resorted to using the herbicide Diquat and completely wiped out my southern Niad in 1 week I don’t know what my carp are surviving on but It’s not southern Niad
Yikes! Grass carp won't touch algae, but they will eat southern niad. Niad has a long slender "stem", kinda like spaghetti noodles, AND, it has very slender leaves. FA doesn't have either one. Diquat is a great choice for Niad, and some algae as well! Glad you have it under control! I would be curious to see if your grass carp start muddying up your water, looking for food, if there's nothing for them to eat.. hopefully not! Thanks for the comment and enjoy your pond!
It's so hot here that this morning, I walked outside and watched a coyote chasing a rabbit....... It's so hot that they were both just walking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol..... yep, it's just that hot!!
You can call the climbing and diving team .....or any other companies hate offers dash service......gone in one day!!
I suppose I could, although I'm betting that would be one EXPENSIVE spot treatment for such a tiny area! lol. Thanks for the comment.
@@bbfarmsmaple8011 bout the same a carpet cleaning......based on sq/ft