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Topping off the pond
San Diego Joe wrote:
"Reel McKoi" wrote: I add water with a greenhouse or nursery type sprayhead. It makes a course spray. This helps degass the water on it's way to the water surface. Unless I'm adding more than around 25% I don't bother with dechloring the water. We don't have much in our tap water. I've seen this mentioned before. Doesn't seem like spraying water in the air would have any effect on the chlorine level of the water once it hit the pond. Can you expand this further? "Once" it hits the pond, it won't make much difference. If chlorine is used, though, rather than chloramine, you can get rid of a great deal of it by increasing the surface area of the added water by spraying. Also, to the original poster, you should find out if your municipality uses chloramine instead of just chlorine in your tap water. That would be the key. The chlorine will dissipate fairly soon. The chloramine will not and it needs to be treated. I'm less than convinced (and references to reef aquarium literature don't help). A pond is a massive (compared to an aquarium) biological process and between UV from sunlight and bacterial action, I don't think chloramine bonds hold up very long. Any amount of chlorine (and ammonia - the "amine" part of chloramine) is hard on your fish, but small (I'd say less than 5%) amounts get processed pretty well by the pond. -- derek - Unless otherwise noted, I speak for myself, not rec.ponds.moderated moderators. |
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