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Some of us have birdbaths in our garden with a large plastic receptacle fashioned from a plant-pot saucer to hold the water. Many birds use it each day, but it is common to have algae build up very quickly on the surface covered by the water. This can happen even if the plastic receptacle was bought new from the shop and the water put in it is good drinking water. The birds bathe in it and drink the water without any obvious ill effects. Where do the algae come from, and how do they survive and grow? Freshwater algae are well adapted to distribute and establish themselves in new, often temporary, ponds and puddles. Most green alga species can make tough-walled resting spores when conditions get difficult, usually when their habitat dries up. These dry resting spores can survive a long time and are small enough to be picked up and carried by the wind or in mud that has dried onto the feet of birds. Any newly filled birdbath will very rapidly be colonized, with the spores revitalizing as soon as they enter water.
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How might algae growth near the surface of a pond affect living organisms living in the pond?
The algae will reduce both air and light causing the organisms in the pond to die.
How do you use algae in a meaningful sentence?
Algae covered the top of the pond. The pond was full of algae.
Is some algae necessary in a healthy pond?
Yes, it is because without any algae some living animals in the pond would die. Algae can be food for some creatures in the pond. If your pond is just for admiring and not for living creatures, no, it isn't because the algae will take over the pond and no living creature is in it to eat the algae.
What do algae get from the pond water?
Snails and tadpoles
What is pond film?
algae
How do you prevent algae from growing in your koi pond?
you kill the algae
Do pond skaters eat algae?
No
What is known as pond silk?
algae
How Many home cleaning products contain phosphates. If wastewater containing excess phosphates drains into a pond the phosphates encourage the growth of algae. How might this change in a pond's ecosys?
other water plants might have less light to help them grow, some algae produce toxins, so the water could be poisoned, fish, like carp, that eat algae will have more food.
What is pond vegetation?
Pond weed is a weed that grows on the bottom of ponds.
What does algae do in a pond?
the plants at the bottom of the pond cannot photosynthesize and die as the floating plants are blocking the sunlight from reaching the plants at the bottom.the whole community of organisms there will be affected.
What can you put in a pond for algae with goldfish?
snails
