jimar1
Koi Lover
Apr 16, 2008, 2:51 AM
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Product Warning.. USA.. Lowes DIY Retail Product
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Last Sunday, I purchased a Water Lily from Lowes,(Nenufar by name). The lily was planted in a very fine clay( off white in color) material. I trans-planted the lily in a pot with black dirt ...Dug out a hole in the pot and after removing the lily from the container, placed it into the hole and returned some of the orginal dirt around the lily. I did not remove all the clay from the container, just an amount adquate such that I would not disturbe the roots... In the pond, a small clay cloud of material resulted from the planting... I assumed that the filter (K1 and bird netting in an old, modified replaceable filter swimming pool filter) ... After approximately, 3 or 4 hours the fine clay particles was all over the pond!!! I assumed that the filter would pull out the clay by the next day!!!! The next day, the koi are a bit 'surface oriented' ...but not an obvious breathing problem!!! I removed 200 gals ( pond is 2000 gals) which helped ... The next day I initiated water replacement ... as the water was still very cloudy... POINT.... The fine clay particles could not be removed by the K1/Bird Netting filter material... much too fine!!!!
I advised the store manager of the situation ...he is to retrun my call(not expected!!!). PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE FINE CLAY PARTICLES THAT THESE LILIES ARE 'PACKED' IN!!!!!!!!!!
Jim
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