| MikeM, I’ve seen many a pond run without a UV, but these are ponds which are several years old, certainly not new like this one.
If you reread my post you will note that my new pond is well under filtered as time has not allowed me to connect filtration to the 4 bottom drains, all it has for now is one filter system sat on the side of the pond being fed by a couple of submersibles. The pond when complete will have 5 separate filter systems, each larger than the one that is running the pond at the moment.
I think you’re looking in the wrong direction for the reason why the pond has cleared so quickly and completely.
Shiro, the pond ‘was’ heated by being connected to the big girls pond inside and water circulated between the two. At that time it was heated to 24c = 75f, but within a couple of weeks of running the water went green and this started upsetting the big girls with it’s PH swing, so I turned off the connection and since has been unheated. The water once cooled has stayed fairly constant around 61f-63f.
It has run this way for 2 1/2 months, in that time the water has gone greener and greener. I put on the trickle tower, pumping at a higher rate than would be the norm, within hours I had foam, it’s still there, but the water has slowly cleared.
Inside on the male’s pond with the shower running, I get very little to no foam, but this system is well established. |