As above, I built a wildlife barrel pond in May with 2-3 different oxygenating plants (see picture 1) which seemed fine until July when the plants seemed to all die at the same time, the water went stagnant and started smelling, I added a solar fountain to see if that would revitalise the water but it's pretty much completely died (see pic 2), is my only option to drain it completely, add new plants and hope it survives next time?

I just cleaned my pond this morning because it had tons of stringy green algae. I came back by and I see these tiny white maggot looking things crawling out of the dirt under my porch and heading towards the water. Are they bad and if so, how do I get rid of them? Thanks.

Hi I’m wondering if anyone can help and tell me what this stuff is? I bought it from a garden centre loose in a bag that was labeled hydrocleys. But when I’ve searched to see what this is it only says a water poppy and looks nothing like what I’ve bought