moss on the pond

i Tried bales of barley straw,what else should I try to get rid of moss?

Had a lot of that til I got a couple of sterile grass carp.
Never a problem since.
Richard in NW SC

I would check with your local County Extension Office or NRCS.

Looks like Duck Weed to me. Only way to get rid of it is remove it mechanically.

That's one of the kinds of Algae that float. Need an algeacide. Basic ingredient is Copper Sulphate and usually comes in blue
granules. They dissolve in water but there has to be so much water to get so many granules to dissolve when you are mixing up a
sprayable solution. Get on here and ask www questions concerning floating algae and the chemical. Will get instructions as to how
you attack it. The earlier in the season the easier to rid yourself of it.

Main problem is using too much and killing your fish and what kind of fish are most susceptible. Next is when to apply. Watching
out for oxygen depletion and all if you do a large area which is recommended for bad problems....you're not there yet! Then waiting
for the kill off cycle. Like when using Roundup; patience. Give it time to finish the job before you add more. CuSo2 diluted liqiid
makes a blue film on the water and the algae so you can see where you put it if you spray it which is what I do from the bank with a
pump up sprayer. By the second day you should start to see some browning. As it dies it will sink to the bottom of your pond and
self distruct.

If you have other pond weeds, Aquacide Co. has the answer. Been in business for 60 years. Materials are expensive but price is
relative. They work. I had a pond completely inundated with Coon Tail Moss. Applied their Aquathol Super K per directions some 3
years ago. In a couple of months it was all gone and hasn't been back. It is not your algae getter. Visit their site and look at their
chart for what attacks what. Home depot carries products with Copper Sulphate for algae.

You don't want to kill all the algae as algae is a member of the Plankton family and is the start of the reproductive process for living
organisms like fish, fry fish , little critters that need something to eat. Different kinds of it, some is stringy, some floats, some looks
like slime.

It's easy and effective, once you get into it, just like caring for your crops.

Good luck,
Mark

Looks like algae to me. I've got a pond on property I've owned for over 10 years. Algae problem started about 3 yrs ago. Thick mats. I've been removing it mechanically. I've done a lot of research and there appear 3 ways to get rid of it: 1)chemicals (copper sulfate), 2) mechanically remove it 3) Blue tilapia.

I'm hesitant to dump metals into the water so I'm stocking it this year with Blue Tilapia. They supposedly love the algae and will clear the pond in a few months. They're a warm water fish so they die out when the water temps drop to 50 degrees or so and then you have.... DINNER! Southern states regulate them due to the fact that they can take over.

My tilapia "experiment" is a work in progress. I bought 250 fingerlings and have dumped half in the pond. I expect I'll lose a bunch to predator fish. I've got the other half in a pool in my garage that I'll be dumping in a week or 2. I don't expect results until late summer when they get bigger. If they work to some degree, I'm going to try and get larger fish into the pond earlier next year.

Read where they get the job done too. I used the chemical as I don't know where I would have gotten them, how many to get, and how much would they would have eaten. As I said, I see that I did after all, have some predator fish (Florida strain Black Bass) survive my kill off a few years ago with the algae, coontail moss overgrowth and the drought, and I have a lot of little fry running around that I want to feed.

Whatever works for you is my motto!

We have floating duck weed on our pond. This isn't duck weed. You are right about the dang stuff though. It is real tough to get rid of.

Larry,

You might want to take a ph test of your water. I believe that stuff generally grows better in acid water. If that is the case liming the water might help hold that stuff down. We see that type of algae a lot up here where the water tends to run on the acid side. It has kind of a snotty consistency, correct?

Not sure what the difference would be, but I everyone around here has told me that OAT straw is the only thing that works? Know of several people that put "flakes" or oat straw in their cattle watering troughs, and then full bales in ponds and stuff??

Barley straw does work to clear the water, but I don't think it does anything for algae.

We use a blueing and dump karmex in this works pretty good copper sulfate will work but will kill snails

try aquacide company they have all kinds of stuff to treat ponds

Northern Tool Pond Balls

Not sure if anyone else on this site grows fish commercially. Look on the Weeders Digest.com site. I use both the weed rake and weed cutter on my 4 ponds as we didn't want to use any aquacides or anti-biotics in our prawns (shrimp)ponds. You are a little late in the game now and are inviting a full fledged fish kill if you use aquacides if the vegetation dies and uses up oxygen as it decays. As mentioned, barley straw is used for clearing/settling the water of suspended particles - NOT weed control. You are probably making the situation worse by adding more organic material as this adds nutrients to the water that the floating aquatic vegetation feeds on. Growing fish and shrimp commercially, I use an aeration system that has a regenerative compressor (low pressure/high volume) that feeds to diffusers that adds oxygen and blows out nitrogen and carbon dioxide. I've posted pictures of the shrimp I grew on here in the past. I currently have a crop of 12" bluegill almost ready. Ex-prawnfarmer (can't compete with Malaysia/Indonesia/Wal-Mart shrimp imports)

When I was little, my Dad used to put my brother and me in a row boat with a rake to clean up the pond. It actually worked pretty well, but
time consuming. Ellis

Grass crap work well. I have also heard of putting gold fish in they eat weeds etc.

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Sterile grass carp,Koi and half dozen domestic ducks and my pond has done well. The ducks love the deep water growing weeds that the pond treater had us so worried about. They would fight like hell to get them out and swim with a six foot hunk of weed for hours

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time consuming. Ellis

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I did that last summer. It worked pretty well, but, as you say, it takes some time. The problem I have is that the algae floats on the water and gets caught in any vegetation growing up from the bottom. I raked a lot of the vegetation out pulling the rake behind a boat and the algae would get blown to the lee side of the pond. Then, I used a lawn rake (holding it inverted) like a "scoop" to remove the algae that collected at the pond edge. As I scooped, the wind would blow more right to where I stood to take the place of the removed algae. Worked well but again.... was time consuming. This is a pic from last summer. It isn't quite this bad now but still pretty disgusting.

Neighbor uses Princep 90 and it works fine...cheaper than Copper Sulphate too..

Rye bales works good

I keep mine under control with ducks,grass carp and the water dyed blue. The ducks have really helped.

Goldfish actually belong to the Carp family.

I knew that they are just a fancy looking carp that if in the right place grow to be 2 foot long or longer