kenny444
Inactive User
Blanket weed gone for good
Hello
I have suffered with blanket weed since last summer, but now I have none. I have tried most of the remedies that are available from the Garden and Aquarist's shops I will not do that again.
I have found two things that work.
The first is slow but it works eventually, it is Barley straw; I bought mine in a big bag from the garden centre as rabbit bedding and its cheap, the square packs from fish suppliers are expensive and you get very little for your money.
The overall effect was to remove blanket weed that was entangle in my elodea and airation plants very little survived my controll test, but the affected plants did they are now back in the pond.
The second successful attempt at controlling blanket weed was the simple addition of an electronic weed controller, it is a Blagdon one and its running now at almost no power draw.
You just wrap the cable around your filter pipe about 15 turns fasten it in place to form a coil and then plug the ends in to the controller box leads (push hard) these are water proof connectors and then turn it on; if you have a good contact you get a red led and a flashing green led. Job done. I highly recommend it.
A saftey Warning: if you are using electricity outside you should be using a water safe plug socket and the cable should be connected to the mains via a RCD (a safety Trip)
happy pond keeping
Kenny444
Hello
I have suffered with blanket weed since last summer, but now I have none. I have tried most of the remedies that are available from the Garden and Aquarist's shops I will not do that again.
I have found two things that work.
The first is slow but it works eventually, it is Barley straw; I bought mine in a big bag from the garden centre as rabbit bedding and its cheap, the square packs from fish suppliers are expensive and you get very little for your money.
The overall effect was to remove blanket weed that was entangle in my elodea and airation plants very little survived my controll test, but the affected plants did they are now back in the pond.
The second successful attempt at controlling blanket weed was the simple addition of an electronic weed controller, it is a Blagdon one and its running now at almost no power draw.
You just wrap the cable around your filter pipe about 15 turns fasten it in place to form a coil and then plug the ends in to the controller box leads (push hard) these are water proof connectors and then turn it on; if you have a good contact you get a red led and a flashing green led. Job done. I highly recommend it.
A saftey Warning: if you are using electricity outside you should be using a water safe plug socket and the cable should be connected to the mains via a RCD (a safety Trip)
happy pond keeping
Kenny444
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