Water Gardening: Cleaning out leaves Is there a better way?, 1 by

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A definite yes to cleaning out the pond before adding the bacteria. I add some every time I stir the pond up for any reason - like moving pots around or scrubbing algea off the sides. Today I realized I had done stuff backwards without realizing. (The estrogen moments are getting to be more regular now.) I cleaned out the pond this weekend -vaccuming etc, after taking as much string algea out by hand as possible. Then I realized I had not added the hydrogen peroxide and that was why the algea was hard to clean off. I added it today and the water immediately became cloudy with little bits of dead algea floating around. I scrubbed the sides again to loosen the rest of the dead stuff, then added the bacteria. Tomorrow much of it will be collected on the pond bottom where I can use my skimmer net to retrieve it.

Yesterday I found two new dragonflies and a brand new damselfly! Here is the new dragonfly- newly hatched with his wings not even dry yet and no color to him yet. He is so vulnerable. He can barely crawl, much less fly.