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Articles/FAQ
Adding Water to Your Pond
Once the pond is installed, you are ready to fill it with water. The pond water will need to be conditioned properly before adding fish and plants. Some people say, "I don't need to add water conditioners to my natural pond. Why add chemicals?" The short answer is that tap water is NOT pond water and the usual backyard pond isn't a "natural" pond. Municipal water is treated with chlorine or chloramine, to make it safe for human drinking water; these are chemicals that are dangerous to fish and can harm plants. Adding Clear Pond Chloramine Buster to tap water neutralizes these chemicals. These substances need to be removed from tap water every time you add water to your pond. A natural pond has a constant supply of fresh water, such as a stream or spring, and the "dirty" water exits the pond, taking fish wastes and other toxins with it. This just isn't true for a backyard pond. For fish in a natural pond there are thousands of gallons of water for each fish. How many fish are in the average 500-gallon ornamental pond? Most likely too many! In short, a backyard water garden is a closed system. You and Mother Nature both need a little help to keep the pond water safe for fish. This is why the proper addition of selected Clear Pond Chloramine Buster turns tap water into pond water and helps maintain a more
natural environment for the plants and fish.
All municipal water contains chlorine or chloramine; both of which are toxic to fish. Even small traces of chlorine or chloramine will irritate the fish and damage gill tissue. Chloramine is a combination of chlorine and ammonia that is used to treat tap water in many municipalities.
Heavy metals from both municipal and well water sources can accumulate in ponds over time, posing a health risk to pond life. Clear Pond Crystal Lagoon will effectively detoxify heavy metals as well as remove chlorine from your tap water. It is advisable to always treat your tap water with Clear Pond Crystal Lagoon whenever you add water to your pond.
When adding fish, it is important to use Clear Pond Clear as Crystal to maintain the fish's protective slime coating. Clear as Crystal is a unique form of Laumontite Crystal, Calcium Aluminum Silicate and when placed into pond water, produces oxygen, balances pH, purifies water through an ion exchange process, reducing toxic levels of ammonia, contains essential minerals that are utilized by the fish to keep them healthy and their color bright and will keep your pond clean and Clear as Crystal.
Fish also need electrolytes such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, chloride and calcium to maintain the proper chemical balance within their bodies. Clear Pond Salt provides these essential electrolytes that fish and all living creatures in your pond need to survive. Clear Pond Salt is 100% sea salt - Natures Medicine!
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