Advice sought from Pond People

On the Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:24:43 GMT, SjT uttered forth the following...
And how to stop the lining from creasing? (Does this affect the amount
of blanket weed if more creases are evident?)

Buy some Barley straw from your local aquatic centre and chuck a bag
into your pond. The water won't go green and it kills off the blanket
weed. As the straw rots it gives off bacteria that eat the blanket weed
etc.

"SjT" wrote in message
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Baron Von Strawberry sayed:

Buy some Barley straw from your local aquatic centre and chuck a bag
into your pond. The water won't go green and it kills off the blanket
weed. As the straw rots it gives off bacteria that eat the blanket weed
etc.

I don't know about it "giving off bacteria", but barley straw is often used
to compete with algae and clarify pond water.

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BV.
www.iheartmypond.com

"Moog" wrote in
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As for the bacteria bit ? I think the poster is a little confused -
decaying organic material doesn't 'give off' bacteria - it is the
action of bacteria already in the water that break the organic
matter down into ammonia, this is further broken down by
oxidisation to Nitrates and Nitrites. Certain levels of these are
essential for a healthy pond, ammonia and nitrates provide food for
aquatic plants - very high nitrates however will lead to very poor
water quality and ultimately kill the pond. This is why you should
prevent an over-accumulation of decaying leaves, fish **** and frog
**** on the bottom of your pond - the smell of that black sludge
from the depths of the pond is also equisitely disgusting.

Whoo hoo! Who gives a ****.
Just fill it full on concrete and be done with it.
****s.

Put a ****ing Swing on it. It's better than a bit of water that cats
**** in.

My cats would **** in it TBH.

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Kullrad (14)
UKSF Best New Poster 2003

There's going to be knives!

"Kullrad" garbled some drivel on 03/04/2004:

"Moog" wrote in
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As for the bacteria bit ? I think the poster is a little
confused - decaying organic material doesn't 'give off' bacteria
- it is the action of bacteria already in the water that break
the organic matter down into ammonia, this is further broken
down by oxidisation to Nitrates and Nitrites. Certain levels of
these are essential for a healthy pond, ammonia and nitrates
provide food for aquatic plants - very high nitrates however
will lead to very poor water quality and ultimately kill the
pond. This is why you should prevent an over-accumulation of
decaying leaves, fish **** and frog **** on the bottom of your
pond - the smell of that black sludge from the depths of the
pond is also equisitely disgusting.
Whoo hoo! Who gives a ****.
Just fill it full on concrete and be done with it.
****s.

Put a ****ing Swing on it. It's better than a bit of water that cats
**** in.

My cats would **** in it TBH.

You feed them too much.

Maybe you should build a pond and hope they fall in and drown.

Use some stakes and liners though....you know the script.

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Moog

"Moog" wrote in news:xn0dgkkwyayxy9019
@news.individual.net:

As for the bacteria bit ? I think the poster is a little
confused - decaying organic material doesn't 'give off' bacteria
- it is the action of bacteria already in the water that break
the organic matter down into ammonia, this is further broken
down by oxidisation to Nitrates and Nitrites. Certain levels of
these are essential for a healthy pond, ammonia and nitrates
provide food for aquatic plants - very high nitrates however
will lead to very poor water quality and ultimately kill the
pond. This is why you should prevent an over-accumulation of
decaying leaves, fish **** and frog **** on the bottom of your
pond - the smell of that black sludge from the depths of the
pond is also equisitely disgusting.
Whoo hoo! Who gives a ****.
Just fill it full on concrete and be done with it.
****s.

Put a ****ing Swing on it. It's better than a bit of water that cats
**** in.

My cats would **** in it TBH.

You feed them too much.

Maybe you should build a pond and hope they fall in and drown.

I don't want my cats to drown, you insensitive ****. I love my cats.

Use some stakes and liners though....you know the script.

Errrr can you read back the first line. I seem to have forgoten it.

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Kullrad (14)
UKSF Best New Poster 2003

There's going to be knives!