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green water
anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio
filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year |
green water - UV lights
*Note: There are two "Koi-Lo's" on the pond and aquaria groups.
"Jim Fellows" wrote in message ink.net... anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year ========================== Give it a chance. My smaller pond was the pits after refilling it this spring. It turned a murky brownish green. We hooked up a UV light to clear off the algae. I also added more pond plants and some POTASH! In a week you could see the difference. The water lilies, set at the south side of the pond are helping shade the water. The larger 2000g pond was so green about all you could see were fish lips. I added a 1/2 cup of potash to the plants along the two sides and that pond is now crystal clear - no need for us to hook up the UV light for it now. Potash (potassium) seems to be missing in many ponds. For the plants to utilize the nutrients in the water and starve the algae they need this element. -- Koi-Lo.... Frugal ponding since 1995. My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö ~~~~ }((((({* |
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:58:26 GMT, "Jim Fellows" wrote:
anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year Below are some tips by a fellow ponder of mine. I'd like to know what your water parameters are currently: Ammonia, Nitrite, pH, KH, NitrAte, if you can test for those? How big is the pond and how many fish? Type & sizes? ~ jan Algae fighting tips ~ New ponds and spring ponds need time for plants to get established, algae is quicker at getting going! ~ add LOTS of plants, of any kind, in the pond. Especially underwater plants. ~ Shade is good - provided by lily pads, floating plants or artificial shade for part of the day. ~ LOW fish stocking (20 gallons per goldfish, 100 per koi) and not overfeeding the fish. ~ building a mechanical filter to screen gunk. ~ build a veggie filter, run water through plants, as easy as floating water hyacinth in your filter. ~ clean up dead plant matter and screen for falling leaves in the fall. ~ water movement, water changes of 10%/week ~ add a sludge consumer, concentrated bacteria. I use A HREF="http://united-tech.com"http://united-tech.com/A ~ building ponds with bottom drains and skimmers. ~ do not use algaecides, they only make lots of suddenly dead algae and that will feed the next algae bloom. ~ gently remove string algae ~ patience ;-) ----------------- (Do you know where your water quality is?) |
green water
Easier to: Fill in hole in the gorund thats called a pond. Plant grass, or lay pavers down.,,,,,buy and install a hot tub. Kick back and enjoy a cold one in the hot tub and let someone else fool with the ponds and all their associated work........ On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:43:40 -0700, ~ janj wrote: On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:58:26 GMT, "Jim Fellows" wrote: anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year Below are some tips by a fellow ponder of mine. I'd like to know what your water parameters are currently: Ammonia, Nitrite, pH, KH, NitrAte, if you can test for those? How big is the pond and how many fish? Type & sizes? ~ jan Algae fighting tips ~ New ponds and spring ponds need time for plants to get established, algae is quicker at getting going! ~ add LOTS of plants, of any kind, in the pond. Especially underwater plants. ~ Shade is good - provided by lily pads, floating plants or artificial shade for part of the day. ~ LOW fish stocking (20 gallons per goldfish, 100 per koi) and not overfeeding the fish. ~ building a mechanical filter to screen gunk. ~ build a veggie filter, run water through plants, as easy as floating water hyacinth in your filter. ~ clean up dead plant matter and screen for falling leaves in the fall. ~ water movement, water changes of 10%/week ~ add a sludge consumer, concentrated bacteria. I use A HREF="http://united-tech.com"http://united-tech.com/A ~ building ponds with bottom drains and skimmers. ~ do not use algaecides, they only make lots of suddenly dead algae and that will feed the next algae bloom. ~ gently remove string algae ~ patience ;-) ----------------- (Do you know where your water quality is?) |
green water
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:43:40 -0700, ~ janj
wrote: snip (Do you know where your water quality is?) Yep, its listed right on that label on the bottle of water named Cherokee Bottled Spring Water.......... |
green water
In article . net, Jim
Fellows wrote: anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year What is the make of the UV, did you clean the quartz sleeve ? jay Sun Jun 04, 2006 |
green water
UV's are a pityfull way of maintaining water quality. Its expensive to replace that bulb every year as needed, so a good mechanical filter is a better investemt. There are lots of good filters that will filter out the junk, as well as feeding habits type feeds that are fed, fishloads, how are the plants if any planated, what kind f fertilizer is used in the plants etc etc that makes for better water than does not cost anything other than time than fiddling with a UV. On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:44:08 -0700, Go Fig wrote: In article . net, Jim Fellows wrote: anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year What is the make of the UV, did you clean the quartz sleeve ? jay Sun Jun 04, 2006 |
green water
my pond (with UV) didnt clear up until the water temp reached around 65o and the
biofilter kicked in. I too was wondering about the UV unit. but it was just too much nutrients. Ingrid "Jim Fellows" wrote: anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
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"Koi-Lo" aka Roy wrote in message
... I think kevin is in dire need of a tranquillizer or two.Chill out dude, Princes Di is dead and no amound of hurrying up is gonna change that... better yet, go ask your stupid questions on google run by and for brits! "Koi-Lo" wrote in message ... Easier to: Fill in hole in the gorund thats called a pond. Plant grass, or lay pavers down.,,,,,buy and install a hot tub. Kick back and enjoy a cold one in the hot tub and let someone else fool with the ponds and all their associated work........ On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:43:40 -0700, ~ janj wrote: On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:58:26 GMT, "Jim Fellows" wrote: anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year Below are some tips by a fellow ponder of mine. I'd like to know what your water parameters are currently: Ammonia, Nitrite, pH, KH, NitrAte, if you can test for those? How big is the pond and how many fish? Type & sizes? ~ jan Algae fighting tips ~ New ponds and spring ponds need time for plants to get established, algae is quicker at getting going! ~ add LOTS of plants, of any kind, in the pond. Especially underwater plants. ~ Shade is good - provided by lily pads, floating plants or artificial shade for part of the day. ~ LOW fish stocking (20 gallons per goldfish, 100 per koi) and not overfeeding the fish. ~ building a mechanical filter to screen gunk. ~ build a veggie filter, run water through plants, as easy as floating water hyacinth in your filter. ~ clean up dead plant matter and screen for falling leaves in the fall. ~ water movement, water changes of 10%/week ~ add a sludge consumer, concentrated bacteria. I use A HREF="http://united-tech.com"http://united-tech.com/A ~ building ponds with bottom drains and skimmers. ~ do not use algaecides, they only make lots of suddenly dead algae and that will feed the next algae bloom. ~ gently remove string algae ~ patience ;-) ----------------- (Do you know where your water quality is?) |
green water
"Koi-Lo" aka Roy wrote in message
... I think kevin is in dire need of a tranquillizer or two.Chill out dude, Princes Di is dead and no amound of hurrying up is gonna change that... better yet, go ask your stupid questions on google run by and for brits! "Koi-Lo" wrote in message ... On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:43:40 -0700, ~ janj wrote: snip (Do you know where your water quality is?) Yep, its listed right on that label on the bottle of water named Cherokee Bottled Spring Water.......... |
green water
"Koi-Lo" aka Roy wrote in message
... I think kevin is in dire need of a tranquillizer or two.Chill out dude, Princes Di is dead and no amound of hurrying up is gonna change that... better yet, go ask your stupid questions on google run by and for brits! wrote in message ... my pond (with UV) didnt clear up until the water temp reached around 65o and the biofilter kicked in. I too was wondering about the UV unit. but it was just too much nutrients. Ingrid "Jim Fellows" wrote: anyone have suestion on green water and how to keep it away i have a bio filter and a uvlight worked great last year but not good this year and put new uv bulb in this year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
UV is pity full way to keep water quality. The replacement of expensive bulbs every year according to need, and therefore, a good mechanical filter is a better investment. There are many good filters will filter out spam, and feeding habits are fed feed type, fish loads, how to plant if planted, what kind of f fertilizer used in the plant, etc., it does not cost to improve the water than outside Any time than fiddle with ultraviolet light.
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