WATER?!? YEH, RIGHT!
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
Category: Ponds-Koi
