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At PondScapes Atlanta, we have been creating and maintaining koi ponds all over Winters Chapel for dozens of happy clients for more than 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 clean pond will be gorgeous all summer long.

As with all things, water gardens have their share of issues. Leaks, algae blooms and other problems can be relatively easy to address. However, when your favorite koi starts having problems, it takes a trained eye to find the problem.

Pondscapes Atlanta has that professional. Between us we have over a decade of aquatic management experience. Our Aquatic Biologist, Rich Carter, has a Bachelors of Science in fisheries and aquaculture. He has supervised several large-scale aquatic stores, and a exotic fish hatchery. From his extensive background he can assist in getting your favorite fish healthy again quickly. Often times, a quick water quality sampling and assessment are enough to help a fish-related problem. Unfortunately, there are cases when your fish are far worse off, and we need to supply a microscopic analysis to find out the source of the problem. Pondscapes Atlanta has the tools to accomplish just that. Once we know the problem, we can make suggestions on how to eradicate parasites and disease based on the specific situation.

Reasons to Clean your Winters Chapel, Georgia Pond

Some aquatic environments are never maintained and the ponds and its residents survive very well. However, a majority of ponds are created with high fish densities or are established in locations where the aquatic environment receives a great deal of debris over the year. Even if you start out with just a few fish initially, in a healthy pond they will multiply to the point that the number of aquatic creatures will push the environmental balance of your pond and filters.

Removing debris during the autumn months reduces wastes in the lower levels of the aquatic environment which may become anaerobic if sufficient oxygen is not forming, generating a breeding ground for harmful bacteria, or which may start rotting, releasing ammonia and other dangerous pollutants that can be trapped under the ice. The establishment of these pollutants can create fish depopulation during the winter. While keeping a hole in the ice during the cold season will assist with alleviating the buildup of toxins, pond cleaning before the beginning of winter will help eliminate the overall possiblity of problems.

Cleaning the pond in the spring may help with reducing diseases and unwanted organisms that often occur as the pond and its accompanying biology warms up for the middle of the year, as well as eliminate the overall supplication of food that stimulate algae growth.