Lawcrusher

OK guys, help me out here. My pond is only an initial experiment to see whether or not we want or can go bigger. I have a 150gal prefab pond typical of the kind you might find at Home Depot or Lowes. It has a pump, fountain and waterfall. I have two problems, well one problem and one concern. The first "concern" is this, frogs LOVE my pond. We have had three full "litters" (or whatever you call each group of tadpoles) and are currently in the middle of #4. Is this normal for Florida?? It makes it very difficult ot clean out the leaves and pine needles w/o getting a bunch of tadpoles (I don't want to kill them but damn). So I figured I would get some fish and they would serve as tadpole control. This leads me to my second "problem". I get the fish and then realize we can't see them in the water. This is because of the algae that has taken over the pond (it is a black liner in a relatively well shaded area so we couldn't tell before). I'm assuming this is a problem but I don't know how to take care if this. I have several aquariums but I am reluctant to treat this pond like a tank because it is a far less controlled enviroment. Any advice would be very helpfull.

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