Water Trough going green - Ideas how to stop?

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The troughs in our fields are requiring cleaning more often than i can ever remember! I seem to have to clean them out fully everyweek as they are so green so quickly...

Are there any amazing products / filters or any ways to keep them cleaner longer? Is it true adding apple cider vinegar can help? Would the horses still drink though??!

Thanks : )
 
I have exactly the same problem!!! Its due to my two having a drink with grass or food in their mouths, it drops into the water and turns it :( I dont think theres anything you can realisticaly (sp) put into it but i may be wrong lol Just have to clean it out regularly.
 
I also have this problem :( Horses will drink water with apple cider vinegar in I think... It could all be down to personal taste.... If it is algae then a change in pH will hinder it I think. I will be trying apple cider vinegar as nothing ventured nothing gained. :D I will be able to monitor how much he drinks too as I have to manually fill his field water :)
 
Hairy Old Cob said:
Put in a Gold Fish Problem solved:D
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Really? Now my cousin who's a farmer swears by gold fish, he has them in all his cows troughs!
Surely they are dirty themselves though? I mean if you have a glass bowl empty and one with fish in the fish one would need cleaning first???....
 
AndiK said:
I also have this problem :( Horses will drink water with apple cider vinegar in I think... It could all be down to personal taste.... If it is algae then a change in pH will hinder it I think. I will be trying apple cider vinegar as nothing ventured nothing gained. :D I will be able to monitor how much he drinks too as I have to manually fill his field water :)
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Please let me know if it works!!
 
Goldfish are put in troughs to eat any mozzie or midge larvae.
They won't stop the water going green . Best thing for this is shade - a board with a horse nose sized hole works.
 
I have the disks,you do need to ensure u buy enough for the size of the tank. And,they don't stop it turning green,but do slow it down so instead of cleaning it weekly,I find it goes about 4/5 weeks in summer. Its not a prob for us in winter usually!
 
The metal Fresha Tank discs haven't worked in my trough- I do have a black plastic one though, the majority of tanks on the yard are metal and they do help with those ones. I've just settled with having to give the trough a very thorough scrub every week.
 
I used apple cider vinegar in the water this summer as I had read it helped keep flies off the ponies. Yes, the ponies drank it happily, I slowly built up the amount so they could get used to the taste. Cautious answer as I may have seen what I wanted to see but ... it seemed to help reduce the flies and I don't think I had to clean out the tank as often as I would normally have had to either. It gets my vote!
 
Sunlight causes the water to go green, it's algae, the only way to stop it is to shade the water, other than putting things in which may 'taint' the water.

Goldfish are great for eating midge larvae, but they have nothing to do with the green water.
 
i have 3 big plastic containers all next to eachother and only one of them turns green:confused: it gets filled from the same source as the other 2 and gets as much sunlight but no matter how many times i empty and scrub it , it's always the same one which goes green:rolleyes:
Not sure how goldfish would cope in my containers in the winter! had to break the ice with an axe last year, if the cold didn't kill them the shock probably would!!:eek:
 
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