The maintenance and cleaning of your pond are critical to ensuring a clean and healthy environment for any fish and plants. Your pond will have its own unique ecosystem depending on location and the type of fish and plants you have, and not keeping this ecosystem in top shape can result in the loss of any life in the pond.

To keep your pond healthy and clean, there are a number of tasks that should be completed regularly. Tasks such as cleaning out the filters and pump, cleaning debris out of the pond including leaf debris on the surface and bottom of the pond, cleaning any waterfalls and fountains, and removing and replacing any dead plants.

The plants and fish in your pond will rely on the ecosystem being kept healthy and you can only achieve this through regular cleaning and maintenance.

Depending on the location of your pond, you will need to do a “deep clean” once or twice a year. This will often involve removing everything from the pond including your fish and plants so that the silt and debris build-up can be fully removed from the pond, the pond water-blasted out (if using a plastic pond), plants tidied up and replacing any broken plant pots and pebbles.