Koi Care:Maintaining Your Pond During The Spring Season
In the spring, your pond literally comes to life! From their hibernation, the organisms in your pond are ready to come to life at the first signs of a warm weather. This is the best time to take care and maintain your pond before the living organisms come back to live from the winter. Changes can be observed as days get warmer. Temperatures at 50 degrees are best for maintaining your pond.
The maintenance required for your pond will depend on the happenings of the past winter. A hard ones calls for a need for you to perform more changes, and this makes it a good idea to start as soon as you observe changes in the weather. Always keep in mind that maintenance in the spring should be completed on a yearly basis, no matter how harsh or mild the previous winter was.
Check for the pond's water quality. You'll notice that your pond's water is very clear when the season will change from winter to spring. Don't let this one fool you, as there are things taht will give real problems once the summer season will come if you don't resolve these issues as soon as possible.
During the winter and fall seasons, plant materials like leaves may have found their way into your pond. Although the water seems clear, these materials have placed large amounts of nutrients in the water, causing those very fast growth of algae once springtime comes. Also, high amounts of organic material will start to undergo decomposition in your pond, which in turn reduces the oxygen in the water.
And now, since the water is clear, this is the best time to clear those slits and debris. And you can do this through:
1) Bringing in a pond professional from your local pet store or fish dealer. These people have the right equipment needed to vacuum most debris out of your pond. This could be an option that will cost you more money, but you are guaranteed that the majority of those problem-causing materials will be removed from your pond.
2) Use a fine mesh net to scoop out many of those slits and debris. Now,. the issue here is that most of the nets give more slits to the pond rather than removing them from it. After removing those debris and slits, test out your pond's water. The winter will cause changes in the pH levels of the pond. Now, at the beginning of the spring season, the pH level of the water should be 8. This can be attained by putting treated tap water (slightly bufferd to be alkaline) into the pond.
Most of all, always maintain and take care of your fish. Keep in mind that spring is a very weak time for your fish as they haven't eaten for months living with low energy. This can cause your fish to be more prone to attacks by viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria. This is the time to take all necessary precautions for your pets as well as your outdoor pond.
As you take care of your pond, add a wide variety of treatment solutions to it in order to lessen the harmful materials and pests. Once the weather heats up, another dosage of such solutions will be able to protect your Koi as they are in the process of developing again their immune system, giving themselves protection from viruses once temperature warms up.
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