Just like a bear coming out of hibernation, your pond is tired of the cold weather and SOMEBODY wants to EAT! That somebody is ALGAE and its' food source is nutrients that have found their way to the bottom of your Morris, Passaic, Essex, Union, or Bergen county area pond since the Autumn months. Atlantis Water Gardens in Denville, Morris County NJ offers professional spring pond cleaning and maintenance services to make your life easier when maintaining your water feature.
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Your filtration is completely ineffective in cold weather months so dead leaves, sticks, fish waste and other wind blown debris have had lots of time to decompose and transform into sweet, sweet pond sludge while you haven't been paying much attention to your frozen backyard paradise (It was too freakin' cold to go out there in my slippers and Superman pajamas!). A majority of water feature owners are coming out to their favorite aquatic sanctuary to find that they now have wall to wall carpets of algae in their fish's underwater living room and they're realizing that this won't be a simple "Plug In The Pump and it's Waterfall Time!" type of deal.
Don't sweat it! Everybody's got to do some sort of Spring Cleaning and that includes Mother Nature. Winter snow melts flush out natural bodies of water, sweeping away a lot of the "Yucky Stuff" that accumulates over the Winter in natural ponds. Backyard pond owners don't have that luxury with our closed ecosystems, so it's on us to get in there and kick a little pond scum butt!
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There is a lot of conflicting information out there about the do's and don'ts of water garden maintenance, so your head may be spinning, wondering which steps are necessary and which ones aren't. The whole point of installing your pond in the first place was to reduce the stress in your life, not add to it...
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