| Re: Washing up liquid in pond.
I wouldnt be too hasty - washing up liquid is only soap so it might not kill off all the pondlife anyway - and it ought to break down fairly quickly. The long term problem will be the increased nutrient load in the water (soaps have lots of phosphate) which could lead to eutrophication and deoxygenation - to combat that you could put in a miniture floating fountain to oxygenate the water (take the cost out of mr 8 year olds pocket money - hes old enough to know better).
regarding the fish - fish arent great in a wildlife pond anyway , so you could take this as an oportunity to go the no fish route.
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