Pond is red and brown color
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Tea-Brown colored Water in Pond
Comments (5)I do use a product that removes sludge from the bottom of the pond. It appears to have worked well. It is called Natural Pond cleaner, which puts back good bacteria when applied. The sellers of these products depend on users seeing an improvement. But of course there's no actual way to tell by looking. If the pond is doing well owners attribute the goodness to whatever they did, like add a bottle of something. Human nature and a pretty good selling scheme. It is possible the product added the tannins, but I doubt it would color the entire pond...or the upper pool only...or whatever is going on. We had this same brown color last year, for a month, but when the green algae appeared on the rocks edges, the brown water went completely away. That is what I need. All things are possible...but since we have no idea what this brown color is there certainly isn't any way to draw the conclusion that some algae removed the brown. There are a lot of scenarios that could explain it. Is there such as thing as brown algae? I do not see any residual on the rocks. There are brown algae species but none that I would call tea brown. The brown kinds are generally macro type, like plants. I could do a water change again, maybe 20% but I am not sure if that would help. See, now to me that's really interesting. You call this tea brown...but it only appears in the upper pool. No comment on doing the color test, no explanation on how two connected pools can have different colored water. But you doubt a water change would effect water color. That leads me to think you know something you're not wanting to comment on. But you would like help on fixing the problem. Fascinating. thanks for the feedback. A little clarification. The PH is about 9.0. I added baking soda last night, it did reduce the PH to around the 8.0 mark. Baking soda in water has a pH of around 9 to 8.3. Adding baking soda would not reduce pH from 9 to 8. Other things, like GH is what interacts with baking soda to get a 8.3 pH. But most people don't mess with GH since the chemicals are scary sounding and 9 pH is fine. What likely happened is the pH in each test just happen to be different. Different time of day, different depth, different location, difficult to tell the difference in colors, etc. pH tests are very hard to get right and confuse a lot of people into doing harmful things to the pond. Adding baking soda isn't normally harmful unless ammonia is present but I'm sure you tested ammonia first and found it to be 0. I suggest to people who don't really want to know too much about pH that it would be way better for the pond and fish if they threw out their pH test kit and just use a KH test. KH is how you determine how much baking soda to use. pH test result just cause way more harm than good. Unless of course a person is studying how pH works. I assume the 9 pH is what was called "high" in the first post. It's up to each pond keeper to determine what pH they want. I for example wouldn't call 9 high in a Water Garden or Koi Pond. Many pretty serious fish keepers allow pH to be around 9. Not perfect, but fine. At any rate I wish you good luck with whatever is going on....See MoreHelp with stain color for red oak floors..want warm brown color?
Comments (2)Don't stain it at all. Use an oil-based finish and it will mellow over a year or so into a warm amber. Not too dark....See MoreCacti seedlings have gone brown/red colour
Comments (9)Definitely looks like either too much light or too much heat. Those are still very young. Trichs that age and younger only need 1-4 hours of direct light a day and indirect light the rest of the day. Even though they are cacti they are ver susceptible to burn from excess heat or light at that age. If you are still growing cacti from seed just remember to take it easy on the light and heat for the first few months. If they get that color don't freak out. It's not too late. Place them in cool darkness and take them out for maybe an hour or 2 of direct light a day and put them back in cool darkness and they will regain their green color and heal the burned tissue over time. I started separating mine based on light sensitivity so that I could give each one a better suited environment. The ones that seemed to handle higher levels of light and grow faster without becoming burned were separated from those that began to discolor. That way I could give each one it's highest level of light without burning to optimize the growth speed. Hope you are still growing them and I hope these little ones made it!...See MoreStupid lawn is turning ugly red/brown color HELP before my wife kills
Comments (8)If (IF) the dead red/ brown grass with very wide blades is fescue, then what is the green grass interspersed in small clumps within the extensive carpet of dead red/ brown grass? How did you prevent emergence of new crabgrass this year after you eliminated the crabgrass that had already germinated?...See Moresleeplessinftwayne
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