ourmanflint
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Hi all,
my allotment pond has been going for about a month now, nothing fancy just a preformed liner about 750L.
Water is a mix 50/50 rainwater and Eau de Thames.
The pond has 6 baskets with following marginals:
Caltha palustris x6
Alisma plantago x6
Butomus umbellatus x6
Cardamine pratensis x2
Aponogeton distachyos x6
Pontaderia cordata x4
Sagittaria sagittifolia x2
Ranunculus flammula x1
Myosotis palustris 1x
Waterlily 1x
2x bunched hornwort
Fish - 6-8 White Cloud Minnows & 4 red shiners
I have started to get the dreaded blanket weed? and want to get on top of it before it swamps everything. Obviously being at the allotment, there is no power so no water movement, and pond is pretty much in full sun all day, at least until the plants around it get bigger to provide some shade.
So, I was thinking of doing EI on it, but have zero experience of dosing a pond or of EI either. Do I need to dose both phosphate and nitrate? Or do you take into consideration those levels already in Thames water, and work from there?
Cheers
my allotment pond has been going for about a month now, nothing fancy just a preformed liner about 750L.
Water is a mix 50/50 rainwater and Eau de Thames.
The pond has 6 baskets with following marginals:
Caltha palustris x6
Alisma plantago x6
Butomus umbellatus x6
Cardamine pratensis x2
Aponogeton distachyos x6
Pontaderia cordata x4
Sagittaria sagittifolia x2
Ranunculus flammula x1
Myosotis palustris 1x
Waterlily 1x
2x bunched hornwort
Fish - 6-8 White Cloud Minnows & 4 red shiners
I have started to get the dreaded blanket weed? and want to get on top of it before it swamps everything. Obviously being at the allotment, there is no power so no water movement, and pond is pretty much in full sun all day, at least until the plants around it get bigger to provide some shade.
So, I was thinking of doing EI on it, but have zero experience of dosing a pond or of EI either. Do I need to dose both phosphate and nitrate? Or do you take into consideration those levels already in Thames water, and work from there?
Cheers
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