How to fix up an overgrown neglected fish pond
Taking over an abandoned pond with unhealthy fish and overgrown trees requires a step-by-step cleanup plan and the right tools. Without prior experience, the sheer volume of overgrowth and poor water conditions makes it difficult to know where to start or how to revive the fish.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1rehome the fish together with the equipment and close the pondDid this help you?
- 2Knocking down all the weeds to get back down to the muckDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Now it’s much worse with trees growing up now. Im willing to invest in the right tools, within reason and put in the sweat to get it cleaned up, just need some guidance on how to approach this project.”source ↗
“I am in the process of buying a house with a small pond that has goldfish in it. Clearly the fish and the pond are not doing well, and I have zero experience with fish.”source ↗
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