Barley Straw turned my pond water brown

but at least it is no longer pea soup green!

Now, what can I add to my Skippy filter, or pond, to remove the brown
tint?

"Granny Grump" wrote in message
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but at least it is no longer pea soup green!

Now, what can I add to my Skippy filter, or pond, to remove the brown
tint?

Time!!!!

HTH

Lost

Time!!!!

Anything else? Would really like to see my fish, on the bottom, at
least a few times this year

"Granny Grump" wrote in message
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Time!!!!

Anything else? Would really like to see my fish, on the bottom, at
least a few times this year

Hey, I'm in the same boat.. did we use too much barley straw, or what?


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did we use too much barley straw, or what?

How dark is the water? I use Barley bales and they give my water a
brown tint, but the water is still clear to the bottom.

Jim
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"Jim" wrote in message
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did we use too much barley straw, or what?

How dark is the water? I use Barley bales and they give my water a
brown tint, but the water is still clear to the bottom.

we just used two of the barley straw "pads" in ours, and they are about 10
inches square, woven.

Our pond is 12x12 by about 2-3 feet deep.


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we just used two of the barley straw "pads" in ours,
and they are about 10 inches square, woven.
Our pond is 12x12 by about 2-3 feet deep.

Two Barley pads should have changed the water to a tea color. If your
pond is an opaque or murky brown, I would think something else caused
the problem.

Jim
Zone 8a - Dallas, Texas
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How dark is the water? I use Barley bales and they give my water a
brown tint, but the water is still clear to the bottom.

I used barley pellets.

Maybe it's real dark tea brown because the pellets reacts faster than
the straw does.

Hey, I'm in the same boat.. did we use too much barley straw, or what?

Nahhhh, think it's because the pellets rot so much faster than the
straw.

Will stick with straw the next time around...

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:10:22 -0500, Granny Grump
wrote:

but at least it is no longer pea soup green!

Now, what can I add to my Skippy filter, or pond, to remove the brown
tint?


Wait.

It did the same when i first put a bag in my ~1300 gallon pond. After
a week or so the particulates settled and were filtered out.


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