[Ponds-Koi] WATER?!? YEH, RIGHT!
Um Bill??? According to all the news reports around here, y’all don’t have any water and that’s why your state is trying to move your border up into my backyard…. ;-p
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Bill Dowden wrote: > Every day I hear more stories about lousy water supplies - both wells > and city water. > > For example: Miami-Dade in 2006 was reporting 2.1 - 2.7ppm chloramines. > > Our local Superman (a KHA) has noticed that his water in NW greater > Atlanta went from a steady 7.4 last year to 8.2ish currently. > > The Des Moines Register had an interesting report on the terrible > problems that they are having with water quality due to (primarily) > fertilizer runoffs. > > Missouri has terrible problems from hog waste and fertilizer runoffs = > very high ammonia. > > So, the moral of the story, dear children, is to NOT trust your > incoming water as being fish safe. TEST it! > > No dechlor type chemical, including AMQUEL PLUS, is going to handle > some of the city waters - with 5+ppm ammonia and over 3ppm chloramines > - at the normal dosages. SO, TEST and treat appropriately, not blindly. > > And test strips do NOT work. Use good liquid or dry reagent tests > that are in date. Do not expect ammonia tests to be terribly accurate > at very low levels - if the ammonia test reads positive, try it on > bottled water and see if it reads zero. > > And, anytime the city works on a pipe, they usually super dose it with > chlorine. Whoopie! TEST, TEST, TEST. > > 
> > Bill > >
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