Very weird, moment I dropped in the liquid of the test it turned green. Not even yellow
UPDATE on Pond cycle
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Dang I'm good!
I made sure and did 2 test came back to 1 PPm
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Chloramines in city water -- we have that. My tap water registers ammonia.
Oh... chloramine instead of chlorine, and it registers as ammonia? Very good to know! I've never heard of that before, and I would definitely be suspicious if there was actually ammonia in the city water.
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Didn't I understand that you used old pond water to help fill the pond? If so the nitrates could have come from the old pond water and sludge run off from the back wash of the pet store filter.
Wow I'm clueless! I never thought of that. I guess that could be possible.
That is not the case. Chloromines are usually formed when ammonia is added to chlorine. So the ammonia registers as ammonia.
Oh I see. Okay, I'm just praying this cycle hurries up. I honesty say 1-2 more weeks..
As a matter of interest Calvin whats the temerature where you are both air and water temperatures ?
Temerature will go half way to helping things along my friend the higher the temperature the quicker things should happen I've a feeling things are going to spike pretty soon but I did say how longs a piece of string each pond will go at its own rate and not before .
The important thing is that we keep your fish alive so please learn to read them as they will tell you more about whats happening in your pond than any of us can,
Because non of us are with you in Texas by your pond helping you through this its down to them to let you know .
You could say we are all blind apart from you and your koi and can only go off what you are telling us, you are the one eyed man in the land of the blind so to speak.......the koi your other eye .
Just hold your nerve have faith it will spike soon
Remember once it does spike that constant maintenance of your pond and filters along with water changes and weekly monitoring of water perameters will keep thngs just sweet.
As a matter of interest what size filters are on both your ponds , the reason I ask i it may be an idea to upgrade things as a matter of course as you go along and your fish load increases.
Which believe me it will as your koi grow, the larger the koi the more waste being produced by them all .
We are lucky in that aspect as our filteration units are monsters , our pond being a retro-fitted former QT pond for a koi dealership they are designed to take that ever increasing load .
Dave
Temerature will go half way to helping things along my friend the higher the temperature the quicker things should happen I've a feeling things are going to spike pretty soon but I did say how longs a piece of string each pond will go at its own rate and not before .
The important thing is that we keep your fish alive so please learn to read them as they will tell you more about whats happening in your pond than any of us can,
Because non of us are with you in Texas by your pond helping you through this its down to them to let you know .
You could say we are all blind apart from you and your koi and can only go off what you are telling us, you are the one eyed man in the land of the blind so to speak.......the koi your other eye .
Just hold your nerve have faith it will spike soon
Remember once it does spike that constant maintenance of your pond and filters along with water changes and weekly monitoring of water perameters will keep thngs just sweet.
As a matter of interest what size filters are on both your ponds , the reason I ask i it may be an idea to upgrade things as a matter of course as you go along and your fish load increases.
Which believe me it will as your koi grow, the larger the koi the more waste being produced by them all .
We are lucky in that aspect as our filteration units are monsters , our pond being a retro-fitted former QT pond for a koi dealership they are designed to take that ever increasing load .
Dave
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As a matter of interest Calvin whats the temerature where you are both air and water temperatures ?
Temerature will go half way to helping things along my friend the higher the temperature the quicker things should happen I've a feeling things are going to spike pretty soon but I did say how longs a piece of string each pond will go at its own rate and not before .
The important thing is that we keep your fish alive so please learn to read them as they will tell you more about whats happening in your pond than any of us can,
Because non of us are with you in Texas by your pond helping you through this its down to them to let you know .
You could say we are all blind apart from you and your koi and can only go off what you are telling us, you are the one eyed man in the land of the blind so to speak.......the koi your other eye .
Just hold your nerve have faith it will spike soon
Remember once it does spike that constant maintenance of your pond and filters along with water changes and weekly monitoring of water perameters will keep thngs just sweet.
As a matter of interest what size filters are on both your ponds , the reason I ask i it may be an idea to upgrade things as a matter of course as you go along and your fish load increases.
Which believe me it will as your koi grow, the larger the koi the more waste being produced by them all .
We are lucky in that aspect as our filteration units are monsters , our pond being a retro-fitted former QT pond for a koi dealership they are designed to take that ever increasing load .
Dave
Oh man the temperatures here ranges from 90-100 85 lowest.
So when it SPIKES how long does it stay in spike mode? Or would it drop drastically. When I see a spike I'll apply Amquel because it removes the toxins but it's still there.
The filter size... I'm not sure how to tell this but one filter filters up to 1000 and the other one is 1500
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Calvin, do you have a thermometer that will measure the water temp? You can get those from places like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, etc. in their pool department. It will be a floating thermometer with a string attached (some are cute, like a rubber ducky). It would be good if you could measure the actual temp of the water, too, and report that.
Okay, I should do that. Let me go run to Home Depot now.