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At PondScapes Atlanta, we have been building and maintaining koi ponds everywhere in Atlanta, Georgia for dozens of happy customers for more than a decade. 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 clean pond will be gorgeous all season long.

As with all things, water gardens can have their share of problems. Leaks, cloudy water and other problems can be relatively easy to fix. However, when the favorite koi starts acting funny, it takes an expert to find the cause.

Pondscapes Atlanta has that expert. Between us we have over a decade of fish keeping experience. Our Aquatic Biologist, Rich Carter, has a BS in Science specializing in fisheries and aquaculture. He has supervised several large-scale aquatic stores, and a exotic 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 a fish-related problem. Unfortunately, there are cases when your fish are far worse off, and we need to supply a microscopic analysis to pinpoint the source of the issues. Pondscapes Atlanta has the right tools to do just that. Once we know the problem, we can make recommendations to eradicate parasites and diseases with regards to the specific issue.

Reasons to Clean your Atlanta, Georgia Pond

Some aquatic environments are never maintained and the waterways and its occupants survive handsomely. However, a large number of ponds are established with high fish densities or are established in locations where the aquatic environment receives a great deal of debris during the season. Regardless if you start out with just a few aquatic animals in the beginning, in a healthy aquatic environment 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 bottom of the aquatic environment which may turn anaerobic if necessary oxygen is not forming, generating a breeding ground for harmful disease, or which may start rotting, creating ammonia and other dangerous chemicals that can be kept under the ice. The establishment of these toxins can lead to fish kills during the winter. While keeping a hole in the ice over winter will assist with alleviating the buildup of toxins, pond maintenance before winter sets in will help eliminate the overall potential for problems.

Cleaning the aquatic environment in the spring may assist in reducing diseases and parasites that often occur as the pond and its biology warms up for the summer, as well as eliminate the overall supplication of food that stimulate algae growth.