Ensure that your pond is ready for the seasons to come should not take you more then a weekend to complete and will ensure that you have a water garden for the rest of the year.
Your Koi pond will literally come to life at the first of the spring. Living organisms in your pond spent the previous winter in a proverbial hibernation and are ready to come to life at the first sign of warm weather. Now is the time dream to start of maintenance of your front pond than fish, plants and other life forms pond are returning to live in their sleep in winter. As the days begin to get warmer, your pond will begin to change radically. If you are not careful, you may miss this crucial opportunity for maintenance. In General, look for temperatures around 50 degrees, as is the perfect time.
Necessary maintenance on your pond will depend in large part of what has happened during the previous winter. If the previous winter was hard, the chances are that you need to make changes, so it may be a good idea to begin as soon as you start noticed changes in the weather. However, some spring maintenance must be completed each year, did any how hard or how the previous winter was mild.
Water quality
You may notice that your pond water is extremely clear when the seasons change from winter to spring. Don't let this you, there are a number of factors that will be really cause problems as soon as the summer can't if you correct these issues in advance.
During the months of fall and winter, as leafs of organic and plant material may have found its way in your pond. While the water seems clear at the time, the organic matter placed a large amount of nutrients in your pond, which will result in an increase in the growth of algae on the arrival of spring. If the algae was not enough, the large amount of organic matter in your pond will begin to decompose and will reduce the oxygen content in water.
Since your water is perfectly clear, this is the perfect time to clear all this unwanted debris and the slot of your pond. This can be done a number of ways.
(1) Hire a professional of the pond of your local dealer or the pet store. They will have the equipment necessary for the majority of the debris and slot of your pond of vacuum. This is a more expensive option, you will have the assurance that the majority of the problem causing the material will be removed from your pond.
(2) If the call to a professional is not an option, you can consider using a fine mesh net to pick up more possible debris. The only question is the most nets will be only stir up the slot in your pond, rather then delete it.
Once you have deleted unwanted debris, then you must test your water. Winter seems to cause the pH levels change. In early spring, your pH level should be a 8. This is possible by topping off your pond with the treated tap which is buffered to be slightly alkaline by your local water company.
Maintaining your fish
Spring time is a very low moment for your fish, because they did not eat for months, and they may be living on a low level of energy. This causes your Koi to be more vulnerable to attacks of organisms such as bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. This allows the spring the appropriate time to take any preventive measures. Addition of a wide range of processing solutions will significantly reduce the amount of resulting disease pests and equipment. Once the temperature warms, an another dose of this treatment will ensure that your Koi will be well protected while they redevelopment their immune system. Once temperatures will warm, your immune system is Koi will be effective enough to protect against the disease.
