Pond weed in field drinking trough

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Can't seem to get rid of pond weed in my field drinking trough despite cleaning it out and scrubbing it. Don't want to put in any chemicals for obvious reasons. Does anyone know of a natural remedy? I have tried barley straw but this does not work
 
Get a gold fish. You'd have to look after it like you would with a house kept fish, and move it inside in the winter when the trough freezes, but by then the weed will have stopped growing.
 
Do you know what type of pond weed it is? if its parrots feather you'l have trouble shifting it, is it that much of a problem, maybe pull it out and sell it to people with ponds,
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we put two goldfish in the trough 5 yrs ago and they have survived being frozen and have kept the weed off

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Yes, but that's mean.
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Poor fishy wishys! My fish come in for a winter holiday.
 
DO NOT put goldfish into a trough in the hope that they will save you a bit of work. Fish are living creatures too and surely deserve the same 5 freedoms afforded to horses. Goldfish DO NOT feed on pond weed. They feed on tiny insects and water bugs. Or in my pond, expensive bloody Koi food! A trough will get filthy with horse slobber and fish excretions. It will also get hot enough to make a cup of tea from in summer, cold enough to freeze the whatsits off a brass monkey in winter, may dry out, freeze solid or get knocked over. For heaven's sake put some elbow grease into cleaning it! You can swish a bucketful of Milton's round after you've cleaned it and then swish it again with clean water before refilling. A bit of Milton's is OK for a newborn baby so will be ok for your neds.

You wouldn't keep a horse tethered in your garden to eat the weeds down in your rose beds so don't keep a goldfish unless you can give it a decent environment.
 
Our trough does NOT get hot enough to make a cup of tea, it is NOT filthy, and it cannot be knocked over, there is a large board over half of it so the fish have plenty of protection from herons etc and can hide if they want to, and it will NOT dry out it is mains fed. As for it freezing over in winter yes it does but we put a ball in winter and break the ice ,just like you would a pond.
 
if your trough is mains fed and cleaned every couple of weeks it will not grow pond weed!! it will only grow anything if not drunk out of and minging!!! kallibear will tit bit her fish til they become sharks! and horses are herbivores so fish and fish [****] and fish food (for kallibear) are a no no. same as cod liver oil did you ever see a horse run round with a fish in its mouth? (kallibear's and fii's an exception)(and breezing)
 
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if your trough is mains fed and cleaned every couple of weeks it will not grow pond weed!! it will only grow anything if not drunk out of and minging!!! kallibear will tit bit her fish til they become sharks! and horses are herbivores so fish and fish [****] and fish food (for kallibear) are a no no. same as cod liver oil did you ever see a horse run round with a fish in its mouth? (kallibear's and fii's an exception)(and breezing)

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oh deary me. You're either drunk or malicious, childish and quick frankly a bit stoopid. I shall be charitable and hope it's the former.
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You wouldn't keep a horse tethered in your garden to eat the weeds down

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says who!
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Pony gets dragged home regularly cos I'm too lazy to get the lawnmower out.

I do totally agree though that if you have fish they need to be cared for, not just dropped in and hope for the best.

My fish now live in the pond in a garden since we moved yards but they had a WAY better life than most of the poor think people keep in tiny little tanks.

They do eat pond weed (and destroy every single plant they were ever given!), as well.

My fishies had a big 120l tank (which didn't freeze all the way down, but they still came in in the winter) with covered area, a scattering of gravel and a couple of plants, both real (until the horses and the fish ate them) and fake. They had one of those little feeding hoops where they got a couple of wheatgerm sticks (and similar - flakes disolve and make too much of a mess) a day. The constant slow change of water (horses drinking it and refilling automatically) seems to not only keep it clean (they were only little fish anyways - not any more!) but stopped the chemical from tap water affecting them. The drinker has a valve at the bottom so I would drain a little out daily, taking the poo's and other debris with it.

They were happy fishy.
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To the OP - if that sounds like too much work, BoF's suggestion of milton scrub would be much easier............Not as entertaing and pretty though.
 
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