Why does your pond spike so high in PH..........is it concrete or does
it have lots of manmade stones or limestone type rocks in contact
with the water or?????
I know it is unrelated to a pond with filtration and such,
but my pond stays around 7.2 to 7.4 most all the time. Even if it went
higher or lower not much I could do without buying a dump truck load
of what ever is needed. Lowest I have ever seen mine was a 7.0 and the
highest was a 7.8. Sort of nice not having to fool with PH, cleaning
filters, and stuff, but it sucks when it comes to having gin clear
water and viewing fish deep down...About my only gripe with my pond is
viewability.


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:26:34 -0800, ~ jan JJsPond.us
wrote:

===4. Draining and refilling, is just going to give the algae a nice new batch
===of water to work in and probably stress everything else. I wouldn't do it.
===
===I think this one is a total myth, more a YMMV.
===
===Every year I have to totally drain my lily pond to get the baby fish and
===muck out. So all new (treated) water goes in. That was a week ago, still
===perfectly clear. Course I started the filter prior to the clean out so
===there would be some bio-bugs in it. I gently rinse the sides, but leave the
===fuzz algae attached.... and the clincher, there are no fish in the pond,
===just the frogs doing their thing (which feeds the bacteria in the filter).
===
===Now sometimes I have gotten Suspended Algae in this pond, but it had
===nothing to do with the new water, it happened later in the summer when the
===pH went sky high. 9.0+ and I'd over harvested some string algae (at the
===time I didn't have much fuzz algae). The lily pads were thick, but once
===that pH goes over 9.0 it becomes very difficult for the higher plants to
===remove the nutrients. I'm hoping this year the fuzz algae has a good hold,
===so far it is looking good. I also added a pound of baking soda from the
===start. ~ jan
===
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