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Gerhard
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Oct 10, 2001, 10:35 AM

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-----Original Message-----
From: Postmaster [maimailto:Postmaster@warriorskeep.org]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 7:56 PM
To: koiwebmaster@hileytech.com
Subject: re: Green pond water


Dear Webmaster,



Can you please advise me on two issues with respect to getting rid of green water in a fishpond. I have already had so much advice, all of which has amounted to nothing! Recently I have been reading quite a lot on the use of Hydrogen Peroxide, as well as the miracle Floatron! My questions are:

1. Will the floatron really work in a fishpond?

2. When it is stated that you should not dose your pond twice with H202, I assume this means not twice in a row? How soon after a treatment is it safe to treat again with H202?



With kind regards,

Gerhard



P.S. If you want to check out the Floatron go to www.Floatron.com




Khoobg
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Oct 10, 2001, 1:11 PM

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Hi Gerhard,

I am not personally own a floatron and therefore not able to advice on its effectiveness.

From our experience, as long as your pond meet the following guideline, the green water problem will not exist :-

(1) A sufficiently big bio filter that has a top surface area equal to about 30% of the pond surface area. While your pond may be of 5 feet depth or more, your filter need to be about 3 feet deep.

(2) A trickle filter or vege filter to get rid of the nitrate from your pond water.

With the above, we are able to achieve clear pond water without any shade, whole year under the scorching sun, no UV light and of course without adding any chemical.


Bancherd
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Oct 10, 2001, 8:52 PM

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You probably need reasonable stocking level too.


Gerhard
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Oct 11, 2001, 8:50 PM

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Dear Webmaster,

Thank you for your sincere response to my questions. I really appreciated your sincerity, for I am well aware of my anger at the time of posting! Yet my anger was not AT you, or anyone else, for that matter, but rather at the LACK of knowledge "out there." However, even your reply forms part of my anger, for although your reply makes sense to me, yet the size of my garden does not allow for the size of biologocal filter you recommend. But THIS is not YOUR problem, but MINE! Once again, thank you!

Dear Bancherd,

Your response too is a very sensible REFLECTION of my own anger! But I am NOT overstocked, other than in anger - anger at having ALLOWED myself to be led up the garden path ALL too OFTEN by those who PROFESS/BELEIVE themselves to be God's gift to humanity, let alone the Koi that I have learned to love!

I only wish that I had met all of you FIRST before I had embarked upon recipes for pea soup in good faith.

My Koi, their home, and I will let you know in due course where we have got to.

With kind regards,
Gerhard


Khoobg
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Oct 12, 2001, 5:58 AM

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Hi Gerhard,

If you are short of space for the conventional filter, then you can build a range of vertical trickle filter to compensate for it. Trickle filter will take only small horizontal space but around 5 feet of vertical headroom is required.

 
 
 



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