u/Inglethorpe

Spotted whilst dipping the GoPro underwater
London, UK

UK based, semi-wildlife pond, pump and filter and a couple of goldfish but generally left alone except clearing blanket weed.

Just recently the weed seems to have finally cleared, but something odd is going on: the floor of my pond seems to be lifting up in chunks and floating.

When I scoop it out it’s like muddy jelly. It’s tricky to fish out as I have some tadpoles that I don’t want to scoop up but it’s making the water filthy and I’m having to clean the filter more often.

Any ideas what this is and why it’s recently started?

Kinda ties in with the sun finally coming out after 3 months of grey weather at the start of the year.

Thanks all!