Hello! Pond Nightmare here. :)

[flareyflan]

Ok, so I did my first pond water test. Here are the results:

Ammonia

Nitrate

pH

phosphate

 

[Dave 54]

Your Ph seem a tad too high at the moment at about 9.0 it should be between 7.0 -8.5 tops
Your air stones should be running 24/7 365 days a year why are you only of a mind to run them at night ?

Dave

 

[flareyflan]

Dave, are those your koi in your profile pic? That speckled one is so cool! I've never seen one like that.

 

[sissy]

Not sure but phosphates could be a tad bit high or color of pic could be off a little .It is so hard with the colors of some of those tests

 

[Robert Cappiello]

E="flareyflan, post: 281487, member: 7778"]Ok, so I did my first pond water test. Here are the results:

Ammonia
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Nitrate
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pH
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phosphate
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Ammonia and Nitrate levels look good, PH is way too high..Since you have both plants and Fish PH should be between 6.8 and 7.6.

 

[flareyflan]

So do I lower it? I bought some pH lowering stuff, but I'm not sure how desperate the situation is . I'm a little scared to use it.

 

[mgmine]

Take a look at this link
https://www.gardenpondforum.com/threads/high-ph-level.6333/

 

[flareyflan]

Helpful. Thanks!

Does anyone know if high pH encourages string algae? or algae in general?

 

[MitchM]

High PH does not cause algae outbreakks, but having a lot of algae can cause your pond water to have large PH swings.
It depends on what time of day you measured your PH.