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David Epstein: We are here with Tom Frost Frost from MetroWest Water Gardens and it is now summer time and people are going to be calling you and what is the biggest thing that they are going to have a problem in terms of plants.
Tom Frost: Usually it is Algae David, the same year, things we are going to be looking at maintaining a healthy water quality, making sure the plants should have spent, you know flowers have already gone by, have been removed and also looking at the fish health.
David Epstein: What we are going to do for the algae?
Tom Frost: Probably the safest thing to do and the best thing to do is just add more plants, algae is a plant, it is going to feast and all the nutrients that are on the water and if there are other plants going to take some of those nutrients out of the water, we can start of the algae.
David Epstein: What about plant health?
Tom Frost: Water Lilies, we are going to fertilize them, probably once or twice the season. Other plants will starts showing the stress if the PH level might change, you might starts seeing leaves go from the healthy green, the more of a yellow or brown. Sometimes that the result of PH balance in the water changed.
David Epstein: So what do I do with my PH is off?
Tom Frost: There is an actually chemicals much like a pool, a PH up and a PH down that you can use. Most ponds that are ecologically balance knowing to have a good proper supply of plant material in the pond, the PH level does not fluctuate all that much.
David Epstein: And I notice you have a lot of fish in this pond so what I am going to do with my fish?
Tom Frost: Fish health, what you are going to be doing, looking absorbing, making sure the behavior is normal, what is normal for a fish? Well, there always going to be hungry. They are going to stay together almost like a pack, they will come up to the edge looking to be fed. If you happen to notice some fish that kind of stragglers and staying off by themselves and take special kid to absorb them, often times the fish that want to stay by it self is ill.
David Epstein: And if you do notice that, what can you do?
Tom Frost: What we typically do is a fish will be pull into quarantine tank, just a separate tank, isolated and treated with the variety of medication depending on what illness is apparently showing.
David Epstein: So what else in terms of this time of the year in the summer would you advice people would be doing with their water of features?
Tom Frost: Making sure that you are adding a healthy water treatment to the pond. Healthy water treatment meaning a healthy bacteria, healthy bacteria is going to breakdown all the fish waste inside the pond.
David Epstein: Great, thanks Tom Frost.
Tom Frost: You are welcome.
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