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Salinity?
Our pond has been doing fine for about 1 year, 3 coi, 4 gold fish and
several frogs moved in so we now have about 300 tadpoles. But, we are finally getting around to getting a water softner system. They work by addind salt to the water, so when I add water to bring the pond level back up, do I need to worry about salinity? Pond is about 1400 gallons and the level drops about an inch every couple of weeks. Dave |
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Water softeners use salt with an exchange resin to consume calcium and
magnesium, by replacement with sodium, or potassium. The calcium and magnesium are then backwashed from the water softener periodically. The use of softened water is not highly recommended. If you can, have an outside faucet hooked to the water line in front of the softener. Also, every gallon that is treated, consumes some of the salt, adding to the workload of the softener. The fish will actually do better, as will the yard, with the harder water. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html wrote in message oups.com... Our pond has been doing fine for about 1 year, 3 coi, 4 gold fish and several frogs moved in so we now have about 300 tadpoles. But, we are finally getting around to getting a water softner system. They work by addind salt to the water, so when I add water to bring the pond level back up, do I need to worry about salinity? Pond is about 1400 gallons and the level drops about an inch every couple of weeks. Dave |
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On 4 May 2005 11:59:32 -0700, "
wrote: Our pond has been doing fine for about 1 year, 3 coi, 4 gold fish and several frogs moved in so we now have about 300 tadpoles. But, we are finally getting around to getting a water softner system. They work by addind salt to the water, so when I add water to bring the pond level back up, do I need to worry about salinity? Pond is about 1400 gallons and the level drops about an inch every couple of weeks. Dave Softeners do other things to the water that isn't that great for fish, by pass the softener for the pond. ~ jan See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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~ jan said:
Softeners do other things to the water that isn't that great for fish, by pass the softener for the pond. I was afraid of that, since by-passing the softner will be difficult. Water comes into the house from the well at one end of the house and the outside outlet at the other end, is the very last thing in the chain. Not sure how to handle it. Dave |
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