Aaargh! It's filthy!

[BadBeast]

I'm halfway through cleaning my Stepfathers pond filter. It "wasn't flowing properly"  he said.
Probably because it hasn't been cleaned for about 8 years!  I mean, I'm all for a little Bio-diversity" but some of the things in the cistern must be unknown to Science! Foul, foul slimy mud, alive with things that would have woken  Gieger up in a cold sweat, had he dreamt of them. And the stench, God, the stench! I have to go back out, and run a hosepipe through the whole thing in a minute. Sobbing at the thought of it.
Why?  Why did my poor Mother have to marry a man who allowed such things to flourish? I have a good mind to fill the bloody pond in, and pave over it, as a car port. The memory of the stink will never leave me. "We'll all be old, and infirm one day" I hear you say.
Old people are just twisted, sick caricatures of everything that is wrong with the world!

(I don't mean that really, he's quite a sweet old fella, but the smell of that cistern is a wrongness that will stain my life,  to my dying day!)

[Kai]

The smell is from anaerobic decomposition, mostly SO₂. I bet it's loaded down with chironomids, leaches, mosquito larvae, bacteria, bluegreen algae, ephydrid larvae and various other things I dare not speak of.

[BadBeast]

The smell is from anaerobic decomposition, mostly SO₂. I bet it's loaded down with chironomids, leaches, mosquito larvae, bacteria, bluegreen algae, ephydrid larvae and various other things I dare not speak of.

Are Eels included in the "things of which you dare not speak"? There were three live eels about 10 inches long in the bottom of the cistern.
But I like eels, so I took them across the road, and put them in the Canal. Pond filter is now functional again. And serenity is slowly returning.

[Kai]

The smell is from anaerobic decomposition, mostly SO₂. I bet it's loaded down with chironomids, leaches, mosquito larvae, bacteria, bluegreen algae, ephydrid larvae and various other things I dare not speak of.

Are Eels included in the "things of which you dare not speak"? There were three live eels about 10 inches long in the bottom of the cistern.
But I like eels, so I took them across the road, and put them in the Canal. Pond filter is now functional again. And serenity is slowly returning.

No.

I don't run into eels over here.