Pond Algae

Copper Sulfate is good for Filamentous Algae.  I buy crystals at TSC, desolve them in hot water and apply with back back sprayer.

Barley straw bales. I sell it mostly for that reason.

Does copper sulfate not kill any fish in the pond? A ranch my dad leased, the owner was big on adding copper to water troughs. As well as killing algae, our soils are low on copper so cattle  end up needing copper added to minerals. The copper in the water was good copper supplement. But there where water troughs that had fish in them and we never put copper in those.

Ray: my understanding is that copper sulfate will not kill fish.  However, if the pond is over treated, the decaying algae will rob the water of oxygen and fish kill can result.

cowkicker wrote: aquazine does great ,  simazine is the same thing just labeled for water instead of land and 1/2 the price.  if algae is already bad you will have issues with decaying matter using up the oxygen.

Sorry, aquazine is labeled for water, simazine labeled for land

I have some bullheads in this pond but I might try and find a few carp to see if they can help me.  I also am building an acieration  to get some oxygen in that water.

I checked on those grass eating carp.  They are supposedly sterile so if they escape they won't go on a breeding spree.  The kicker is that they are illegal in Michigan.  I don't understand that one at all.  Closest I could find them was PA, but I wasn't sure they would survive the trip home. 

We use a pond service company. They come about once a month, spring through fall, keeps our pond in nice shape.

need to figure out what kind of algae and what's causing it!   I was shocked what caused mine.   

Darrell...dunno if it'll help or not, but i can come pee in your pond! anything to help ya out!

Shameless, grandson was kayak ing on the river today, he caught a big Ol catfish. Then he went to the neighbors pond and caught a 38lb grass carp. I wish he'd turned it loose back in the pond, but I guess his pal knows how to smoke it or something using cheap beer. Those fish do work. Dad had them put in his pond, about 1.5 acre surface area back then. Somebody came out and looked things over. They are what he suggested. Dad was pumping water out of the pond up to his fat cattle. He would not put chemicals in the pond. We talked to the neighbor who owned a couple of D7 cats. He suggested running a long cable across the pond and hooking a cat on each end of the cable. Then slowly dragging the pond. I don't know if that would work, the old boy that owned the D7's liked to drink Hamm's beer. He might a had some in him when he suggested this.

We always used barley straw bales, sunk to the bottom.  My father used to say that the decomposition of the barley straw released hydrogen peroxide, and that some of the old timers he learned from would spray hydrogen peroxide to the pond, with the same result.  I have never tried it.