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Maintaining Your Water Feature

Now that youve decided to dive into the world of water gardening, youre probably wondering exactly what you need to do to maintain youre new aquatic beauty, and keep it looking good.

There is a lot of conflicting information out there about the dos and dont of water garden maintenance so your head may be spinning, wondering which steps are necessary and which ones arent. The whole point of installing your pond in the first place was to reduce the stress in your life, not add it to.

Well, allow us to share a little bit of water gardening knowledge with you the key to a low maintenance water garden is to keep your new ecosystem in balance! Read on and learn how to water garden the low maintenance way. So regardless of which type of water feature you own, well tell you the best way to maintain it with the least amount of work on your part!

Different Pond Types

Ecosystem Ponds

The key to keeping an all-natural water garden in check is general ecosystem maintenance. The five elements of your ecosystem all need to be balanced in order to insure that everything is working smoothly. They are:

Mechanical and Biological Filters

Pumps and Plumbing

Rocks and Gravel

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