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My "new"fish pond has been up and running now for quite a while. The water has always been crystal clear and my fish have been thriving.
That all changed this morning.
This morning I went out to feed the fish and found a lot of smelly, bubbly clumps of goo floating on the surface. Covering about 70% of the surface.
I looked for dead fish. Dead frogs. Dead rats and found nothing. But a closer inspection showed that even though the filtration seemed to be working ok. The UV sterilizer had burned out.
The fish are not very active either.
I'll be doing some water chemistry tests in a while. But right now I'm replacing the UV sterilizer and a lot of the water.
There is a waterfall. But I've just added two fountains for even more oxygen. I've also replaced a lot of the filter media.
Do any of you that keep ponds think that this was just caused by some type of organic or algae "bloom" caused by my lack of UV?
So far, my fish have not died.
I'm anxious to see what it looks like in 24 hours.
That all changed this morning.
This morning I went out to feed the fish and found a lot of smelly, bubbly clumps of goo floating on the surface. Covering about 70% of the surface.
I looked for dead fish. Dead frogs. Dead rats and found nothing. But a closer inspection showed that even though the filtration seemed to be working ok. The UV sterilizer had burned out.
The fish are not very active either.
I'll be doing some water chemistry tests in a while. But right now I'm replacing the UV sterilizer and a lot of the water.
There is a waterfall. But I've just added two fountains for even more oxygen. I've also replaced a lot of the filter media.
Do any of you that keep ponds think that this was just caused by some type of organic or algae "bloom" caused by my lack of UV?
So far, my fish have not died.
I'm anxious to see what it looks like in 24 hours.