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Does anyone know what are ideal salt readings levels are in a pond with fish
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0.05 - 0.1% Ingrid
On Fri, 18 May 2007 20:10:47 CST, "Paul" wrote: Does anyone know what are ideal salt readings levels are in a pond with fish and plants? Getting confused Thanks............... |
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On Fri, 18 May 2007 20:10:47 CST, "Paul" wrote:
Does anyone know what are ideal salt readings levels are in a pond with fish and plants? Getting confused Thanks............... For a healthy pond, no fish problems. Whatever your tap water (water source) reading is. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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On Fri, 18 May 2007 20:10:47 CST, "Paul" wrote:
Does anyone know what are ideal salt readings levels are in a pond with fish and plants? Getting confused Thanks............... I don't think there is a magic number for salt levels in a koi/goldfish pond that the salt level must maintain. The tap water in my area doesn't have any and most of my friends and club members don't add salt. I raise the salt level to .1% every winter in the hopes the fish will develop a good slime coat to help prevent parasites from latching on just at the critical time the fish are coming out of hibernation (close to.) temperatures and their immune systems are cranking up. I then let the salt level drop as I do water changes and it almost disappears by the following winter cold spell. Yesterday it was at .03%. Some argue the pond should always contain enough salt to prevent brown blood disease, others argue high nitrates occur mostly at startup of a new pond and if the filter is working properly there won't be enough nitrates in the water to cause brown blood disease. There are lots more, but here are a couple opinions. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htm...DOCUMENT_VM007 http://www.koiclubsandiego.org/library/salinity.php Note the San Diego tap water reads 0 to 5 ppt and that is what Norm Meck called acceptable range. Salt tests on plants: http://tinyurl.com/2c8gwm As a medication: http://tinyurl.com/jg6hp BTW if you choose to use salt, the best bargain is solar salt for water softeners at Lowe's and similar stores. It comes in 40lb bags and sells for about $4, and is 99% pure salt. Regards, Hal |
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On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:31:47 CST, Hal wrote:
Some argue the pond should always contain enough salt to prevent brown blood disease, others argue high nitrates occur mostly at startup of a new pond and if the filter is working properly there won't be enough nitrates in the water to cause brown blood disease. Just to clear up perhaps a little confusion, nitrites cause brown blood disease. Fish can tolerate high level of nitrAtes, which usually aren't a problem except in koi only ponds (no plants, minimal algae) or aquariums with low plant high fish loads. Plants take up nitrAtes, so many of us with plants in pond or veggie-filters have little too worry about there. What high levels of nitrAtes affect are growth. ~ jan There are lots more, but here are a couple opinions. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htm...DOCUMENT_VM007 http://www.koiclubsandiego.org/library/salinity.php Note the San Diego tap water reads 0 to 5 ppt and that is what Norm Meck called acceptable range. Salt tests on plants: http://tinyurl.com/2c8gwm As a medication: http://tinyurl.com/jg6hp BTW if you choose to use salt, the best bargain is solar salt for water softeners at Lowe's and similar stores. It comes in 40lb bags and sells for about $4, and is 99% pure salt. Regards, Hal ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:31:47 CST, Hal wrote:
There are lots more, but here are a couple opinions. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htm...DOCUMENT_VM007 http://www.koiclubsandiego.org/library/salinity.php Note the San Diego tap water reads 0 to 5 ppt and that is what Norm Meck called acceptable range. Salt tests on plants: http://tinyurl.com/2c8gwm As a medication: http://tinyurl.com/jg6hp Hal, these are great websites to have in a collection together (why I've cut and snipped here. ;-) I did find the salt tests on plants interesting, not just because of the info, as I had seen this when it first came out, but Dr. Johnson's little note at the bottom regarding water hyacinth & lettuce. Soon after Bonnie came out with this report, explaining how she did it, etc. I found personal discrepancy with WL & WH. I hadn't found my WH & WL showing any affects at the rates she showed them dying. I e-mailed her regarding the high nutrient need of these plants and if that (death by starvation) couldn't have affected her results? I never got an answer. :-( ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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junk science, like a lot of the information on that site.
A big variable is also the concentration of "salts" of all kinds in the local water. some people will never need to add salt because their own water is already high. people also forget that those with softened water have very high sodium already and adding more sodium chloride could be quite harmful. in terms of the study, there is also effect of pH, temp, etc. Ingrid On Sun, 20 May 2007 14:31:34 CST, ~ jan wrote: Soon after Bonnie came out with this report, explaining how she did it, etc. I found personal discrepancy with WL & WH. I hadn't found my WH & WL showing any affects at the rates she showed them dying. I e-mailed her regarding the high nutrient need of these plants and if that (death by starvation) couldn't have affected her results? I never got an answer. :-( |
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