Advice

[Gordo]

Hi all. I had a leak on my pond and lost quite a bit of water.
may question is would it be ok to fill it back up with the hose pipe if I add the tap safe before starting.
I don’t want to be getting the fish out to do it.
thanks .
Gordo

 

[Stephen Noble]

Welcome Gordo!
Yes. I suggest slowly filling the pond over hours not minutes. You don't have to fill it all on the same day either. And as you mentioned, add chlorine/chloramine neutralizer a little at a time over the filling period. An eye dropper works well for this.

 

[Gordo]

Welcome Gordo!
Yes. I suggest slowly filling the pond over hours not minutes. You don't have to fill it all on the same day either. And as you mentioned, add chlorine/chloramine neutralizer a little at a time over the filling period. An eye dropper works well for this.
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Welcome Gordo!
Yes. I suggest slowly filling the pond over hours not minutes. You don't have to fill it all on the same day either. And as you mentioned, add chlorine/chloramine neutralizer a little at a time over the filling period. An eye dropper works well for this.

Thank you Stephen.

 

[addy1]

Welcome!

Like he said a nice slow fill and you should be fine.

 

[CometKeith]

Hi all. I had a leak on my pond and lost quite a bit of water.
may question is would it be ok to fill it back up with the hose pipe if I add the tap safe before starting.
I don’t want to be getting the fish out to do it.
thanks .
Gordo

So I used to fill 5 gallon buckets with water and put the exact of declor in and let it sit for 24 hours to work properly. I always had at least 5 orange buckets full of water at any given time by our backyard and my wife was never happy. I have a new larger pond. It would take forever to add the typical 100-200 gallons I need to add by using 5 gallon buckets so I just run the hose right into it making as mush splashing as I can and I keep adding declor as needed. I think one bottle for every 500-600 gallons. It seems the work fine this way.

 

[GBBUDD]

I'm bad with dechlorinating and I have not lost a fish to illness in many years. even the new pond I only lost one he was found in a crevis toward the top right side up but in ice.

 

[Lisak1]

We don't dechlorinate either for top offs. Of course it depends on the water volume that you're dealing with, but we've never had an issue.

 

[addy1]

One good thing about well water no chlorine.