Who ate all my biofilm!?
I've been lurking this subreddit for some time. Hello! I'm a first time pond builder. I've built a small wildlife pond in my {city} garden for the birds and insects that live around my home. I started late (too late).. at the end of summer. Plan was easy.. dig a hole, get a liner, get some rocks, get a pump. But at this point things started to complicate..... bog filter, pond plants, let it run, deal with mosquitos.. ... nature has its own time...... so days passed and my little pond started to adapt. IT EVEN HAD BIOFILM OVER ALL THE POND ROCKS... but winter IS just around the corner, and I started wondering if my pond plants will survive (forget me not is just such a beautiful flower).
I asked here and apparently no... they won't.. so I started moving them deeper inside the pond, but when I looked at the deeper rocks... the biofilm was gone..
That's when I entered panic mode. If something ate the biofilm THAT FAST.. what will it do to the rest of my plants?
The answer probably lay in the pond itself. So I ventured on with my little endoscope camera..
I share this, maybe you'll find it entertaining, interesting or even funny.
A first time pond builder's experience semi documented.