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At PondScapes Atlanta, we have been creating and running maintenance for koi ponds everywhere in Atlanta for dozens of happy customers for more than 10+ years. Pond cleaning is a very essential part of keeping up with your yard – and we offer the service to help you make sure that your landscaping koi pond will be beautiful all season long.

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

Pondscapes Atlanta has that trained eye. Our experts have over a decade of fish keeping experience. Our expert, Rich Carter, has a Bachelors of Science specializing in fisheries and aquatic environments. He has supervised several large-scale fish stores, and a tropical fish hatchery. From his extensive background our expert can assist in getting your favorite fish healthy again quickly. Sometimes, a simple water quality sampling and assessment are enough to fix an aquatic problem. Unfortunately, there are cases when your fish are far worse than first thought, and we need to supply a microscopic analysis to find out the source of the problem. Pondscapes Atlanta has the tools to do just that. Once we have verified the issue, we can make suggestions on how to eradicate parasites and disease with regards to the specific problem.

Reasons to Clean your Atlanta, 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 built in spots where the aquatic environment is inundated with a great deal of debris during the season. Even if you just establish a few fish initially, in a balanced pond they will breed to the point that the number of fish will push the environmental balance of your pond and biofilter.

Cleaning in the fall helps eliminate wastes in the lower levels of the pond which may turn 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 kept under the ice. The continual build-up of these toxins can lead to fish depopulation over the winter months. While maintaining a clearing in the ice during winter will help with alleviating the accumulation of gases, pond cleaning before the beginning of winter will help eliminate the overall possiblity of problems.

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