CONTACT US

Pond Cleaning - Ellenwood, GA 30294

At PondScapes Atlanta, we have been building and maintaining koi ponds everywhere in Ellenwood, Georgia for dozens of happy clients for over 10+ years. Pond cleaning is one of the most essential part of maintaining your yard – and we offer the service to make sure that your landscaping koi pond will be gorgeous all summer long.

As with all things, water gardens have their share of problems. Leaks, cloudy water and other problems can be relatively easy to address. Although, when the favorite fish starts acting funny, it takes a trained eye to find the cause.

Pondscapes Atlanta has that professional. Our experts have over a decade of fish keeping experience. Our expert, Rich Carter, has a BS in Science specializing in fisheries and aquatic environments. He has supervised many large-scale fish stores, and a tropical fish hatchery. From his extensive background our expert can help with getting your favorite fish back on the road to recovery quickly. Often times, a quick water quality test and assessment are enough to fix a fish-related problem. Unfortunately, sometimes your aquatic environment are far worse off, and we need to use microscopic analysis to pinpoint the source of the problem. Pondscapes Atlanta has the right tools to do just that. Once we know the problem, we can make recommendations to eradicate parasites and disease with regards to the specific problem.

Reasons to Clean your Ellenwood, Georgia Pond

Some ponds are never cleaned and the waterways and its residents survive handsomely. However, a majority of aquatic environments are created with high fish populations or are established in locations where the koi pond is inundated with a great deal of debris over the year. Regardless if you just establish a few aquatic animals in the beginning, in a healthy pond they will multiply to the point that the number of fish will overcome the environmental balance of your pond and maintenance levels.

Cleaning in the fall helps eliminate wastes in the lower levels of the pond which may become anaerobic if sufficient oxygen is not available, generating a breeding ground for harmful disease, or which may start rotting, releasing ammonia and other dangerous chemicals that can be kept under the ice. The continual build-up of these pollutants can create fish depopulation over the winter months. While keeping a clearing in the ice during winter will help with alleviating the buildup of toxins, pond maintenance before winter sets in will reduce the overall potential for issues.

Cleaning the pond in the spring may assist in reducing infections and parasites that often occur as the aquatic environment and its biology heat up for the middle of the year, as well as reduce the overall supplication of nutrients that stimulate algae blooms.