muffin,

According to koivet, the use of hydrogen peroxide to clear the water
following a treatment leaves some peroxide in the pond. Peroxide is active
for up to three days, so any treatments done while it is active will be
partially neutralized before you start. The use of dechlor within one day
will do the same thing. You can do daily treatments, but if you don't
change a large part of the water or do a peroxide treatment, the water
starts to look like mud, and you can't tell when the color change occurs.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html


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1. DO NOT ADD DRY PP TO ANY POND. this is how to kill the fish. make
a
stock
solution

up i know that


2. get the salt down to 0.1% OR get all your plants out of there

it has been at .15% for over a month, so far plants are good

3. add the stock solution of PP in the evening, keep aeration going like
crazy. if
the water turns clear before 4 hours are up, then you need to add
another
dose of
PP., dose 3 days in a row.

ok, koivet.com said to repeat every 3 days
what happens after 3 days, I am sure i won't clear up by then, when do I
repeat??

Jo Ann took a look thinks the mouth problem is columnaris and PP will
kill
that. The
white patch is probably some kind of parasite, the PP is good to take
care
of most
things.

*Thanks* sooo much for asking her,, where can i see some pics or info on
columnaris??


4. your water is toxic, you have to use the newspaper suggested to get
that slick
off the top and change some water. a UV is fine for getting rid of
algae,
but if you
arent getting rid of the nitrates with algae or plants, you gotta do
something else,
like water changes. you dont say you tested for nitrates.

*i jusT ordered a nitrate test kit,,, what should it read

5. if you dont have air stones going in there, get something to aerate
the pond.


I have a water fall lots of water


the PP will react with everything organic and going to suck out the
oxygen. CLEAN
THE FILTER completely every day.

right now I will run the sand filter & turn off the bio filter/uv combo
ok???


dont add the melafix. who knows what the combination with PP produces.


I agree, if you dont have trees casting pollen all over the place, that
crap on the
surface is coming from something rotting in there.

lots of trees relativel new pond & plants.
stuff on top seems less today


it. set up a cheap swimming pool and start removing all the plants
sniffing them
deeply to see if there is anything rotting in them. toads and frogs
spawning, BTW,
will foul a pond fast, altho that is usually a spring thing. Ingrid

i just saw NEW batch of teeny tadpoles