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Pond Cleaning - Duluth, Georgia

At PondScapes Atlanta, we have been building and running maintenance for koi ponds all over Duluth, Georgia for dozens of clients for over 10+ years. Pond cleaning is a very essential part of maintaining your landscaping – and PondScapes Atlanta is proud to provide the service to make sure that your coy pond will be beautiful all season long.

Additionally, water gardens can have their share of issues. Leaks, algae blooms and other issues can be very easy to address. However, when the favorite fish starts acting funny, it takes a trained eye to find the cause.

Pondscapes Atlanta has that professional. Between us we have over fifteen years of aquatic management experience. Our expert, Rich Carter, has a BS in Science specializing in fisheries and aquatic environments. He has managed several large-scale aquatic stores, and a tropical fish hatchery. Pulling from this extensive background he can assist in getting your beloved fish healthy again quickly. Sometimes, a simple water quality test and observation are enough to fix an aquatic problem. Unfortunately, sometimes your aquatic environment are far worse than first thought, and we need to supply a microscopic analysis to pinpoint the source of the issues. We have the right tools to accomplish just that. Once we have verified the problem, we can make suggestions on how to eradicate parasites and disease with regards to the specific issue.

Reasons to Clean your Duluth, GA 30099 Pond

Some ponds are never cleaned and the ponds and its occupants survive handsomely. However, a majority of aquatic environments are created with high fish densities or are built in spots where the koi pond is inundated with a great deal of debris during the season. Even if you just establish a few aquatic animals in the beginning, in a healthy pond they will breed to the point that the number of fish will push the environmental balance of your pond and biofilter.

Cleaning during the autumn months reduces wastes in the lower levels of the pond which may turn anaerobic if necessary oxygen is not forming, generating a breeding supply for harmful bacteria, or which may start rotting, creating ammonia and other dangerous pollutants that can be kept under the ice. The continual build-up of these pollutants can lead to fish depopulation during the winter. While maintaining a clearing in the ice during winter will help with alleviating the buildup of gases, pond cleaning before winter sets in will reduce the overall potential for issues.

Maintaining the pond in the warmer months may help with reducing diseases and parasites that often occur as the pond and its biology heat up for the middle of the year, as well as eliminate the overall availability of nutrients that start algae growth.