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This page introduces fish pond
books and e-documents on how to design, build and maintain garden ponds
to optimize water quality. These books and documents have all you need
to know about algae control, pumps, filters and ultra-violet clarifiers
for water gardens.
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| Fish Ponds
Made Simple Fish Pond Water Quality |
Available
soon
My aim in this book is to give
essential advice on all the main aspects of garden fish ponds and to
make the advice as easy to understand as possible. The advice is
directed at freshwater garden ponds. My experience with ponds
has all been in the warm temperate Mediterranean type climate of Perth,
Western Australia. The principles for water gardens are similar
worldwide
but warm temperate climates like that of Perth intensify some of the
problems facing pond owners. This book will therefore be particularly
useful to pond owners in sunny climates similar to Perth's - especially
California, South Africa, Chile and all of the countries surrounding
the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Available soon In this book, I endeavour to explain water quality and all its ramifications as simply as possible. Water quality refers to the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water. Maintaining good water quality is fundamental to the success of any fishpond. "Good" water quality means the water's suitability for its proposed purpose. For example, if you want a water feature with sparkling clear water and no growth of any kind on the surface of the feature,you would treat the water with chemicals that would make it so toxic to algae that it would also be toxic to fish and plants. If however, you want a pond which produces enough natural food to support a lot of fish, "good" water would be green with microalgae and possibly have a certain amount of unsightly string algae. Water quality is affected by every aspect of a pond, from its position, design and construction to its pumps, filters and maintenance. This book tells how each aspect of the pond affects the water. The principles for fishponds are similar worldwide but warm temperate climates like that of Perth intensify some of the problems facing pond owners. This book will therefore be particularly useful to pond owners in sunny climates similar to Perth's - especially California, South Africa, Chile and all of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Every fishpond is different - the solutions to one pond's set of problems may be very different to another's. The water quality will be affected by all the foregoing factors and by things unknown. Two identical ponds, side by side, can easily develop completely different problems, possibly because the first algae and bacteria spores dropping in from the atmosphere are not identical for both ponds. The first algae and bacteria to hit the pond may colonise the pond to the exclusion of other types of organisms. The information I give on water quality is only to allow you to understand the basic things affecting ponds. © Lloyd Mathews 2005 (revised 2009) |
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