Wait a second! You listed a bunch of plants that normally will grow in the
ground. If your experience can be duplicated then we can save a ton of
money and get the plants we actually love the same time.

Do you by any chance have a picture link to where we can view your set up?

BTW, what is rid-ex?

Thanks

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"Springworks" wrote in message
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I don't think it will work for tannins, though I am not sure. The
following
site on the pucks gives a lot of information and discusses the
clarifying
of
the water/
http://www.koivet.com/html/articles/...?article_id=76
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RichToyBox

Works very well on tannins......Matter o'fact, got the info from one of
your
pond club members Rich...............Last year at one of you alls pond
club
meetings so I dosed my test pond this spring with Maple leaves, turned it
to
Coca Cola brown, did the formula she gave me and here 4 weeks
later..........Voila.....Close to clear as you want to get...Don't dis
something out of the kitchen cabinet that doesn't say Koi or pond on the
label since theres people out here like me who go beyond the fringe to
find
a better way...BTW, I keep in close contact with MSDS people who disclose
whats in the "pond"chemicals so as to use the every day products instead
of
Pond-blah-blah for whatever.......Try pond bacteria for jump starting your
bio filter at $27.00 a small jug, and get a $4.00 box of
Rid-ex..........Check the chem's & ingrediants.........Same beneficial
bacteria breaks down sludge & algae to good stuff.......Same
outcome.....My
fish in my 790 gal test pond are still ok...... No salt (occurs naturally)
No algae-fix....Just barley straw, Same chemical there......Don't need
"aquatic" plants, anything will grow in a body of water thats not chemed
to
death....Anything...Roses are up and blooming, Thuja looks enormous right
now, Marigold seeds are just starting to sprout, and hostas have gone mad
in
my bio-filter......Columbine and Petunias are starting to crawl and
Periwinkle is just starting to fold from early March bloom......Try
it............