Water Gardening: UVlights for pond, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
I'm still holding out on the absolute need for a UV algae clearing. I started my pond up about two months ago and was told that it would take up to 8 weeks for the bio-filters to kick in and do their job. It's been a long 8 weeks for an impatient guy. (BTW - I find this DH or DW stuff to be a bit strange after almost 50 years of marriage. We kind'a do stuff together with certain specialities assumed a long time ago. We both found out early on that whatever is important to one should also be important to the other.)

Anyway, my pond is assuming its natural state in life without UV lights for now. I still have not resolved the pond pump issue as I've been busy with other things but the electricity must surely be running on OT. The water is not swimming pool clear but I really think that would not look natural, actually ugly. But I can see every pebble at the bottom of the pond and can easily follow the koi doing their thing way down deep.

Today my first lily opened up and I went to grab the camera but the blue of the flower is not reflected in the picture - too much sunlight. My pond is subject to the full fury of the sun and it's around 85 degrees out. So things are growing rapidly. The lilies are spreading out from nothing. I have all new plants in the pond. It seems to closer to the surface the earlier the blooms come out. I counted 7 buds on one plants. I didn't know that lilies close up in the evening and only show themselves to the sun.

Here's a shot of the water lily first bloom.

Fred