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Question on salt
Within the next week or so, I expect to be ready to fill our new pond.
We have a well, and the water is rusty unless it goes through a water softner. I don't think there's enough salt from the softner to hurt the fish (although I'm not sure), but I wonder if there is reason to be concerned with the effect of salt on the plants. Any opinions? Ed |
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Question on salt
wrote in message om... Within the next week or so, I expect to be ready to fill our new pond. We have a well, and the water is rusty unless it goes through a water softner. I don't think there's enough salt from the softner to hurt the fish (although I'm not sure), but I wonder if there is reason to be concerned with the effect of salt on the plants. Any opinions? You should not use Softened water for fish as far as I know. Water that comes out my domestic softener has a Gh of zero and is therefore deficient in minerals but high in Sodium Ions (the softening process is done via Ion exchange). I don't think its good for fish in much the same way as you really should not drink it! There is no salt in the water as such - well, maybe a little bit but negligible amounts. The salt you put into the water softener is simply there to re-charge the softening media with Sodium. I. |
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Ed,
Do a google search using pH and iron in rec.ponds newsgroup. What I saw was that the iron will precipitate out within a few days at the pH that the ponds have. So the use of the softener is a waste, in addition to removing all of the GH hardness. As far as the salt, some use salt in their ponds at the 0.1% range routinely, while others don't. Few plants are hurt with salt levels of 0.3% for short periods of times, like a few weeks. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html wrote in message om... Within the next week or so, I expect to be ready to fill our new pond. We have a well, and the water is rusty unless it goes through a water softner. I don't think there's enough salt from the softner to hurt the fish (although I'm not sure), but I wonder if there is reason to be concerned with the effect of salt on the plants. Any opinions? Ed |
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http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/p....htm#DISTILLED OR REVERSE
OSMOSIS do a 50/50 of softened to well. Ingrid wrote: Within the next week or so, I expect to be ready to fill our new pond. We have a well, and the water is rusty unless it goes through a water softner. I don't think there's enough salt from the softner to hurt the fish (although I'm not sure), but I wonder if there is reason to be concerned with the effect of salt on the plants. Any opinions? Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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Ingrid, Rich, and Ian,
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'm gonna need a lot of help. Maybe one day I'll have a few answers for others instead of only questions. I should have plenty to read for a while with the link provided. Thanks again. Ed |
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