As a producer of Blue Dyes for Ponds (& black too) I feel that some of you may be using too much dye for your needs. 1Kg (about 2.2 pounds) will colour a pond containing 10,000,000 litres 2,642,000 US Gallons, 2,200,000 Imperial Gallons. The shade, once the dye has had time to circulate, is a very,very pale shade of Blue.
Pond Blue needs a minimum pond depth of 24 inches and works by reflecting Ultra Violet light away from the bottom of the pond to effectivly starve algae of it's food source. The product does NOT kill anything, it is NOT an algicide.
The costs can be found on our website
www.dyofix.co.uk and I can assure you that the cost is much less than the same colour if sold for food use.
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Originally Posted by ~Roy~
Exactly, the pond dyes do not contain any type of copper anything in
them to achieve the blue color.......Instructions on the jug of dye I
have says its safe for all aquatic life forms,as well as safe to swim
in, and safe for livestock to drink. Cattle ranchers around here also
use it in their livestock water tanks to reduce algae growth as
well......
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:37:03 GMT, Charles
wrote:
===On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:29:25 -0300, Derek Broughton
wrote:
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===CanadianCowboy wrote:
===
=== sorry for another "dumb" e-mail but I just read that some people put
=== blue food colour in the pond as a replacement for the "official" pond
=== dye. Is this safe ?
===
===I'd say "yes" - it's safe for you so it's almost certainly as safe, or
===safer, than "official" pond dyes (I hate even the thought of an official
===pond dye).
===It's my understanding, which nobody's seen fit to contradict yet, that the
===blue pond dye is copper sulfate based. That's _not_ good for the
===invertebrates in your pond.
===
===
===Some safety info for some types of pond dye. I don' see copper
===listed in any of them.
===:
===
===http://www.precisionlab.com/itemimag...UE_EZ_MSDS.PDF
===
===http://www.appliedbiochemists.com/aquashademsds.html
===
===http://www.parkwayresearch.com/msds/BlueLagoon_msds.pdf
===
===http://www.parkwayresearch.com/msds/...onWSB_msds.pdf
===
===http://ultraclear.com/MSDS/OrgPondC.pdf
===
===
===I know some people think blue ponds look pretty, but I just don't get it.
===It's unnatural, and... well, it's unnatural :-)
===
=== ps- colour is spelled C-O-L-O-U-R in Canada
===
===Yeah, but it's a whole extra letter :-)
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