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Pond Maintenance

River Rock Water Gardens offers seasonal pond maintenance services to keep your pond clean and in return your fish happy!

During our visit, we will check for basic things to keep your pond healthy and running properly.  In fact, whether you just want us to help you come home to a beautifully clean pond or need us to check up on things, River Rock can help.


An ecosystem pond maintains a biological balance to replicate nature. Therefore, all ecosystem ponds benefit from having a small amount of algae. However, too much algae can be unsightly and unhealthy for your ecosystem pond. Here at River Rock Water Gardens, our maintenance team is equipped and ready to help provide everything you need to find the balance that nature intended. 

The components of an ecosystem pond work together through equally important roles. 

Recirculating the pond’s water allows oxygenation and debris to be swept into a central location. Using a series of filter mats allows a place for good bacteria to grow.

Plants are a natural filter for an ecosystem pond and feed off of the excess nutrients in a pond, which just happens to be the algae’s food source.

Adult koi consume algae as a food source. Therefore, koi reduce algae as well as being a delight to the eyes. In short, koi make a great addition to a water garden or pond.

Bacteria living in the pond survive on excess nutrients in the pond’s water. For example, the rocks and gravel provide surface area for the bacteria to call home. In fact, bacteria living on the rocks break down the excess nutrients from debris, fish waste, and decaying plants that settle on the pond floor.

Ecosystems take time to thrive. As a result, bacteria can take up to six weeks to colonize. This means we have to wait and let nature do its work. After all, when we replicate nature, we replicate nature’s balance also.

Product Spotlight - Automatic Dosing System

Maintaining optimum water quality has never been easier. In fact, the Aquascape Automatic Dosing System for Ponds automatically adds a choice of specially formulated Aquascape water treatments to ponds. Therefore this eliminates the guesswork and routine of manually adding water treatments. 

Also, the Automatic Dosing System is dependable, extremely quiet and provides treatment options for a wide variety of issues in water features that contain fish. 

In addition, a choice of four treatments provides pond owners with treatment options for a wide variety of pond issues. In short, whether you have an issue with cloudy water, fish loss, bad odors, or excessive debris, the Automatic Dosing System can help.

Contact us to have your Automatic Dosing System installed! 479-268-2915

Northwest Arkansas - Benton & Washington County

Bentonville, Rogers, Lowell, Springdale, Centerton, Gravette, Siloam Springs, Fayetteville, West Fork and more. Don’t see your town listed? Give us a call 479-268-2915

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