pollen or algae?

[lenny jewell]

Addy .... HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ?????????

 

[addy1]

Addy .... HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ?????????

lol sorry yes hydrogen peroxide........was throwing mulch all day, brain not totally turned on.

 

[lenny jewell]

ok addy so i got a small pond lets say 200 gallons with pea soup , you say a litre per 1000 gals so whats 1/5 of a litre .... and don't worry if it all goes wrong i shall not dream of blaming you lol ....

 

[addy1]

lol I have only used it for string algae, used to get it bad in my arizona pond. I would think it would work for the pea soup stuff, but not sure. Pea soup is algae and peroxide does kill algae.

I poured mine into the my stream, have some good air flow going if you do use it. Maybe even put in less to start with.

 

[lenny jewell]

how quick were results?

 

[addy1]

Stretching my memory.............seemed it started dieing off the same day. It has been about 4 almost 5 years since I was in arizona, treating that pond.

 

[lenny jewell]

by the way 1ltre equals 1000 mililtres duh ? i guess i should have know that but i didn't

 

[lenny jewell]

malak that would equal out to 1 mililitre per gal

 

[addy1]

lol yep lenny, you got it.

 

[Malak]

They say to increase the oxygenation meanwhile, so I do it while it's sunny and never when any fountains or filters are not running. The bottomline is that the algae will choke the life out of the entire pond, so it's the lessor of the evils.

 

[lenny jewell]

cold water has more oxygen in it than warm water ... so when the pond is cool is best , but you're right not at night as this is when plants are converting the oxygen to co2 and emitting more co2 into the water .. at least this is what i read

 

[lenny jewell]

if you think theres an oxygen problem put in an air stone , but as long as you have water falling into the pond it should stay pretty well oxygenated

 

[lenny jewell]

if i am wrong here please someone correct me

 

[addy1]

I just had water falling into the pond via the waterfall filter when I added the peroxide, no aerator running. The fish always did fine with the treatment. Sure got rid of that string algae. It would be gone until the next spring.

 

[Malak]

my algae survived the entire Winter. :-(