PondXpert Blanketweed Brush Head Pond Net

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Particles of dirt can provoke the growth of blanket weed, so it’s a good idea to clean your filter regularly. This will help remove any debris that could be providing nutrients for the weed and ensure that your pond remains clear and healthy. 3. Get rid of excessive numbers of fish Organic matter falling into the water such as leaves and plant debris will rot down and release nutrients. Regularly removing the leaves can help prevent a build-up of them Avoid putting soil in the pond. When adding new plants, make surethey’reinlow-nutrient, aquatic compost In ponds where plants are not an option, use phosphate removers to artificially reduce the excess nutrients to cut off the blanket weeds food source.

This is a question that pond owners will probably be asking forever and unfortunately the news isn't good, because when you have clear and healthy water, the chances are high that you'll get blanket weed. This is after all a natural, native, filamentous algae, the spores of which can be brought to your pond by insects or birds or even bythe wind. Don’t fight it - accept it butwe can tell you how to manage it so well that you wouldn’t even know it was there.

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Organic waste and poor filtration can cause excess, unwanted nutrients to start to linger in your pond water. These nutrients are what the blanket weed feeds on and help it to multiply. Too Much Sun

Various other products are available – some appear to be effective only in settling suspended debris, others may give short-term control of free-floating algae. Some claim to control the most troublesome types, such as filamentous algae or blanket weeds, but as there are many different forms of these, you might have to try several products to find one that works in your pond.Treatment needs to be repeated at intervals. There are hundreds of different types of algae that can grow in ponds, somesuspended in the water, others spreading across the surface in long fibres. The main signs to look for are: When planting pond plants, use aquatic planting soil or sieved garden topsoil from ground that hasn’t been manured or top dressed. By growing more plants there will be fewer available nutrients to the algae

Like all plants, algae require oxygen when not photosynthesising. Algae will consume a large amount of the pond’s oxygen levels that your fish and pond plants need to survive. Creating more competition for oxygen, the algae will create an unhealthy environment within your pond. Hinders Sunlight