peat and ponds

[sissy]

The ag report was on a paper posted at the store and I should have looked at the name of it and didn't .The store was southern state .I did google peat and ponds and there are a few things on there .What I can see there must be a compressed form of it in pellets just like barley pellets and peat also comes in a large bag ,I'm guessing all these by the stories are big ponds or farm ponds .They also have liquid peat just like they have liquid barley

 

[sissy]

I saw an article similar on dr foster and smith pet education.com that has a pdf file and explains a lot about peat in ponds and it says you can add it to your bio filter and will give the pond a yellow tint but to take that away it says use activated carbon www.peteducation.com

 

[sissy]

Also what results if any does purigen or black diamond mixes of activated carbon and ammonia fighting crystals in a pond do.I know they are for fish tanks but isn't a pond a big fish tank in some way

 

[taherrmann4]

Some people use peat as a part of the substrate in planted aquariums and they say it will tint the water.

 

[sissy]

on all the sights I saw it says if you use activated carbon it takes the tint away

 

[HARO]

OK, so you use peat to tint the water to discourage algae, and then use activated carbon to remove the tint.... anyone else get the irony here??? John

 

[sissy]

The peat is supposed to get rid of algae like barley and you can have the tint or not have the tint .I saw that some use both barley and peat .Peat by what I read gets rid of string algae and helps ph .But there are like 6 different opinions of what peat does and does not due so it's confusing .

 

[taherrmann4]

At the beginning of the season I use barley extract, it does tint the water ever so slightly but is really unnoticeable to the untrained eye. It does help with my spring start up and algae.

 

[sissy]

I use the barley extract also but I use one of the whole house water filter with a carbon filter in it .It is the one my son took out of this house to put in the self cleaning system .I also have used micro lift spring and autumn start up .It smells like rotten eggs but always keep the pond from shock ,from extreme weather changes .

 

[sissy]

getting near the end of the season

 

[sissy]

the weather is supposed to change but was 78 today but really windy and time to start taking things in and apart and I got a bag of peat and am going try some in my old preformed pond and see what happens .I took some water from this pond and put it in there

 

[j.w]

Neat sissy, you still have stuff blooming. Very pretty! It's all over here now and cold and wet..........actually today was cold but not raining...............yet anyways.

 

[sissy]

It is supposed to rain tonight and wanted to try the peat out and see how it works in my old preformed pond 1st test is with just peat and pond water from my pond and then going to see if activated charcoal changes the color and hope I can get the test done before winter gets here .I picked all my green tomatoes and planted fresh stuff in my raised covered beds like lettuce ,red potatoes and carrots and broccoli and some scallions and pickles .I took all the pics today some are repeats I can't figure the pic thing out as it says it did not upload but did .poor little iris is wind blown windy as heck here

 

[j.w]

You're planting a garden now sissy? Will it grow in the cold weather? I know lettuce might but did not know about potatoes, broccoli or cukes.

 

[sissy]

I have it in a sunken green house and it is in the ground by 2 feet and surrounded with mulch .That keeps it warm enough to grow veggies all winter .It is built out of concrete block standing on it's edge with an inside wall of block and there is mulch between the 2 walls .On top I have the wooden frame with a giant door on top made of storm windows on hinges .I grow better veggies in the winter here .