Water Gardening: Stringy algae in my pond., 0 by bedouin

bedouin wrote:
Ah well, live and learn! I certainly spent enough energy emptying everything, refilling, getting stringy stuff back again, then removing all plants again and dunking Chlorox into the pond! Lost my lovely large goldfish due to stress.....so sad! I left the chlorox in the pond for about a week, replaced all the plants but this time none of them were just 'sitting' on the ledges, but grouped in large plastic pots. So far, so good. No more Chloroxing it....far better to follow your guides and buy the Algae killers! Thanks so much everyone. I'm still so sad about my one goldfish! I still have to rearrange the plants to make an attractive arrangement. But at least they are back in the water.
Has anyone left Alocasia's in ponds, just sitting in water rather than planting them in soil first before placing the pot in the pond?
Now here is a question! Has anyone heard that a goldfish can self-fertilize? I think so! this goldfish had babies and was a single parent! Have you ever heard of this before????? Nature at its best! Joanmary