New Member Into & Request for Help
Thanks everyone.
The last few days here have been pretty hot and combined with a new pond environment the fish must have been pretty traumatized. They are beginning to eat and swim around more.
As I said before, the remodeled pond has several of the original plants and about 100 gallons of water from before the remodel. The water has remained quite stable and we have pretty good water from the Hetch Hetchy water shed, except for the chlorine that is added. Here are the numbers from the tests I have been performing:
Nitrate: 15 ppm down from 20 ppm yesterday. Nitrite: between 0 and .5 ppm Hardness (GH) 75 ppm (soft) Alkalinity (KH) between 80 - 120 (hard to tell on my test) pH Level between 7.2 and 7.6 Ammonia is currently less than .05
I will search around but can anyone suggest a do-it-yourself chlorine filer? I have seen two types, charcoal and KDF copper/zinc. I am hesitant to go with a copper/zinc filter as introducing additional metals into the pond could be hazardous to the fish. Any comments?
Thanks!
Jim
Category: Philippines Internet Koi Society
