Some Questions on Filtration

[GBBUDD]

Not necessarily. Many people kill all their fish, goldfish included, by using chlorinated water. What you are saying just isn't always true. Even if by some chance they might survive, how can you know that you haven't done permanent damage to their gills and compromised their health?

Admittedly, goldfish are tough and may not have obvious issues with your particular chlorinated water, but chlorine can shorten their lifespans.

As has already been stated, the amount of damage can depend on the concentration of those chemicals in your particular water supply. Making generalized statements is irresponsible, in my opinion.

It can also depend on whether or not the water treatment is chlorine or chloramine. Chloramine adds ammonia to chlorine and ammonia can be toxic to fish. Chloramine also does not gas off like chlorine does. So it pretty much requires using a product to neutralize that chemical for the water to be safe for fish.

The fact that you need to clean your filters every day in summer is an indication that you don't have enough filtration for the fish load you have. Have you ever tested your water?

Filters should not need to be cleaned that often. But if that suits you, so be it. Everyone has their own way of doing things, but most of us would prefer not to be cleaning filters daily. And some of us actually take vacations when daily cleaning would be impossible.

Vacations ? H..l I was traveling and I was away from the pond 4 weeks at a time. I designed my set up as set it and forget it, for the most part. It's all about redundancy.

 

[addy1]

Vacations ? H..l I was traveling and I was away from the pond 4 weeks at a time. I designed my set up as set it and forget it, for the most part. It's all about redundancy.

I can ignore my pond all summer without losing fish, frogs, etc.

The bog needs a purge or two in the summer.

 

[hammer]

I don’t have well water. I
Live in the country but have city water-full of chlorine! It doesn’t bother the fish at all. It’s all bs! If you don’t believe, put a goldfish in a 5 gallon bucket full of tap water overnight. It’ll be just fine in the morning

As a landscape architect, turf grass guy although not an agronomist, I can tell you for plantings and especially grass the water is tested from public supplies for a wide range of salts and additives to determine if some modifications are required to the supply. we have an air gap cistern in a public supply, 60 well/40 public… it was the negotiated deal with the public entity…. it’s at the end of a public supply system and they use the irrigation mainly to move water at the dead end. temperature is a big deal in public supply amongst other bacteria and other stuff, let’s say. irrigation from public supply is a bridge to the next rain storm. each end point is different for both wells and public supply…. whatever works for you works for you but scientifically, it’s not “all bs”.

 

[GBBUDD]

What i love to enlighten people about is how Most CIties in America are along large rivers.or some other on large lakes. But for this we'll talk about water being taken from rivers and we will start at the source or the beginingbof the river as it flows away. And the first city uses this to collect and treat the water, adding all sorts of CHEMICLES such as cloramines, phosphates, and fluoride ( though this has its days numbered) just to name a very few. It's filtered and pumped throughout the city. Now to not so good part the sewers. They go to a treatmen plant where they add all kinds of Chemicals aeration and settling chamber and mixers. It's tested and then dumped into the same river they used to collect water.
Now the disturbing part the next city down stream uses the other city's water that was dumped in the river for there drinking water. Adding yet more chemicals. And they too treat their sewerage and it goes in the river to the next city. Ever wonder why rivers have a brown tinge to them?
And this will surely turn your stomach. When a large rain even is expected most of your sewer treatment plants open up the gates and dump sewerage they wish they had more time to treat right into the river.
So you can imagine the first city probably has to do a lot less to its drinking water than does the 4 or 5th city down stream.. and this can also explain why a friend has a healthier pond then you may yet you do three times the work.