Roy, My water garden club has responsibility for the ponds at
the Jewel Box in St. Louis. We always use Black Dye. It is very fetching
looking - but there are no fish in the ponds... just lilies. I would go
ahead and
try the Black dye. You can always dilute it if you don't like it.... yes,
even on
lake such as the one you have.

Nedra

"Roy" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:48:26 GMT, Crashj
wrote:

===On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:32:17 GMT, (Roy)
===wrote:
===
===Since my ponds dyed water got pretty well diluted from Ivan when it
===flooded over the spillway, I intend to redye it come late winter or
===early spring
===
===What is the dye for???


The dye gives the pond a different color and shades the water to keep
algae down. NAtural ponds in Alabama are a grey green color due to the
majority of the soils (in my area at least) are comprised of a bue
clay or prairie clay which is a light gray color, so the ponds always
have a less than natural look to them as compared to ponds you would
see up north were the soils are much different and algae blloms are
not as prolific.
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