Water Gardening: Natural String Algae Control?, 0 by Mrs_Ed

Mrs_Ed wrote:
My first season pond has done pretty well except for constant struggles with string algae in the second half of the summer

Our PH seems on the medium-high side. Everything else tests well.
I've been using barley bales with not so much luck.
Through the summer we've also used some natural biology (liquid), clumping clarifier and some charcoal for other reasons.
We're feeding the 6 fish once a day, but not very much. We also have some trapdoor snails.
It's about a 450 G pond with a 450 gph pump in pre-filter.

Our dogs that drink out of this and birds drink and bathe, so i really want to do something safe for them. We're not comfortable using some of the algae killers because of the pets.

Any ideas?


Here's a picture in mid-June when it looked good.