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- How about a garden pond with algae eaters?
- Snail insert against the algal bloom
- Small but powerful - crustaceans and shells
- Algae control from the Aquaristikfachhandel
- Tips
Algae eaters are an easy way to permanently get rid of algae
How about a garden pond with algae eaters?
Even if algae can never be completely kept away, with natural garden pond algae eaters you have the chance that their mass distribution will be limited. Who sensibly combines snails, mussels and crustaceans, will soon have the annoying algae invasion under control.
Although they are part of pond life like the water, the enjoyment of algae is kept within very narrow limits by most owners. Certainly there are technical and chemical problem solvers, but they do not prevent the algae plague from being acute again after a few weeks. Remain the biological algae eatershowever, their usefulness must also be critically considered in terms of their excretions that will accumulate on the pond bottom.
Snail insert against the algal bloom
Especially the marsh cap slug is known for being very busy with the eradication of algae. It leaves even the aquatic plants alone and eliminates the only one of its kind in our latitudes not only the green on the ground awake, but even the thread algae. The Spitzschlammschnecke, which attaches its spawning cords directly to the aquatic plants, becomes even larger at seven centimeters up to 200 more algae eaters are createdwho can live for up to four years.
Small but powerful - crustaceans and shells
These useful algae, such as pond mussels are able to filter daily by the dew liters of pond water and eliminate thereby even small micro and floating algae in a natural way. With up to 20 cm in size, these animals grow very impressive. As true biofilters they tolerate temperatures between 4 and 28 ° C and also like to socialize with the other pond inhabitantsfish, snails or shrimp. Not to forget the freshwater prawns, which stand especially on their floating eggs during their juvenile stage and thereby themselves produce several hundred larvae, which will participate later in the algae removal. They are also winter proof, the fish pond should not eschede on the surface if possible.
Algae control from the Aquaristikfachhandel
If you want to become a happy pond owner again, you will find a very wide range of algae eaters in specialist shops, such as:
Tips
It is important that the biological garden pond algae eaters harmonize with the pelvic planting but also with your fish stocking. Also, the size of your pond is essential, so a consultation in retailers makes sense.