In an attempt to help clear the foot…maybe two…of muck at the bottom of my pond , I’ve been using pond bacteria. It’s been over 8 months now and I think it’s helping. I say “think” because I haven’t gone in the pond in a while… but when I first started using this huge clumps of stuff would come up to the surface off the bottom. You also used to be able to sit and watch bubble going blurp blurp and then clumps of decayed stuff would float around.
After a few months of using the pond bacteria and aeration, only rarely do I get the floating clumps of ew and there are no more bottom bubbles coming up. I tried not doing the bacteria and ended up with a scummy film on top of the water….so back to the bacteria I went.
I ended up going with the one I could find on amazon because it was cheaper than anything else for the sizes that I needed. When I spoke to a couple of pond companies, they indicated that it was a good one to use (after telling them I can’t afford theirs!).
The bacteria (HERE) comes in a gallon jug. I just poke the seal (never had a leak in shipping either!) and walk along the bank squirting it in. Other types are in pellet form and you throw them in, and I’ve read about powders but haven’t found any for sale. So if your pond is gross, try out one of the bacteria offerings for a couple of months! Hopefully they keep the pricing down though…some of them are a bit high.
