Thread: Unfishable Moss

Maybe one of the biologist can help. Water clear or muddy ? Lots of run off with high nutrient load ?

I have two ponds that are covered with pollen. It usually goes away during the summer. If it is truly vegetation, try some amurs. 2 or 3 should do it. DP

Give me a holler TOMORROW and I will talk to you about it. My wife says that I have been working too much at home. I need to get some more background info from you. Thanks. Matt
501-412-0356.

Thankyou guys for your inputs! Water is clear, and not alot of run-off. But is surrounded by woods. There are also some weeds in it like coon tail, but that is not the problem. Any and all structure that is in the pond has about a 6-10 foot radious around it of yellow appearing slime (while its in the water) and when out of the water is like fine yellow hairs. and by the end of summer the entire pond will be matted up of it 2-3 inches thick on top of water that floats around and a hook wont penetrate through it. He does have a well that he sometime pumps into it when heat of the summer starts evaporating some water and for aeration. I will call you tomorrow Mr. Matt. Thankyou.

There are several herbicides that are used in the aquaculture insustry that won't harm the fish, but can cause other issues like dissolved oxygen, and/or loss of phytoplankton, loss of bottom of the food chain organisms...

Matt should be able to help more than I, but I thought I would offer another avenue if he didn't mention those.

As a side note: well water typically has zero oxygen in it.

Also, check with your county agent. Fish farmers(especially minnow) add copper sulphate to get rid of moss.

White Amur are a start. However copper sulfate works wonders but you gotta be careful not to kill too much moss at one time. There are several other products that work very well but caution is advised and if you kill too much moss at once, you will deplete Oxygen and kill your fish. Also, Moss can be removed mechanically we used to have a steel frame with pool noodle floats and hardware cloth to a depth of 8 inches. drag is across the pond with a tractor and amazing how much moss you can drag off in an afternoon (The moss is great compost)