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Has anyone any ideas what is going on with this pond?
Back in the early spring a friend had to remove some of the water lily which was making a take over bid for his pond. This of course stirred up the bottom of the pond and it turned into some thing like a brown soup. He expected the sludge to settle but it didn't. After a couple of months he had to resort to chemicals😨. This got rid of the sludge but the pond turned green. The strange thing is that the surface now looks like jam that is just setting and the can skim off the surface which is gelatinous and semi transparent. There are lumps of black compost like material coming up from the bottom and floating on the surface.
Should he just be patient for a few months or is there anything he can do to get rid of what I think is an algae.
Back in the early spring a friend had to remove some of the water lily which was making a take over bid for his pond. This of course stirred up the bottom of the pond and it turned into some thing like a brown soup. He expected the sludge to settle but it didn't. After a couple of months he had to resort to chemicals😨. This got rid of the sludge but the pond turned green. The strange thing is that the surface now looks like jam that is just setting and the can skim off the surface which is gelatinous and semi transparent. There are lumps of black compost like material coming up from the bottom and floating on the surface.
Should he just be patient for a few months or is there anything he can do to get rid of what I think is an algae.
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