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Thread: blanket weed treatment?
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13-03-2015, 10:34 PM #21
Evening all,
I have used CBA with good results but it knocked my filter for a long time, since doing some digging around for the past two treatments I have used nbs vite and this product I have found to be superb. Also a much cheaper alternative!
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14-03-2015, 12:25 AM #22
Hi I looked at cba I was told your filter is ok on this treatment. Thats why I shy away from any blanket weed treatment I need to be sure its 100% filter safe I don't like knocking filter back such a pain to get it going again.
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14-03-2015, 02:28 PM #23
It's s new one to me about the filters being knocked back but I also do 5% water changes every two days for a week too:-)
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14-03-2015, 02:40 PM #24
Got to say I've never experienced any filter knock back when I've used CBA.
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14-03-2015, 02:45 PM #25
Full dose of kusuri gold has knocked my filters back. Twice. Cba used to aswell. Half dose of kusuri and a small top up a week of kusuri pure keeps it at bay
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14-03-2015, 04:13 PM #26
viresco koi
Hi All,
I have used cloverleaf blanket answer in the past but last year saw viresco koi in a aquatic shop so decided to give it a try, I was really impressed with the results & only used 1 dose all year, it comes in a powder form that looks abit like grass cuttings you put in a bucket with air stone in over night then pour in the pond
cheers eddy
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15-03-2015, 09:45 AM #27
Now I am not a perfect water keeper still very much learning even after ten years of koi keeping! How ever I have not and will not ever treat blanket weed with CBA I have used pond balance for the past 8 years very successfully how ever up till now this has much been a band aid for the problem! I am in the process of re-designing the pond and adding veggie / anoxic filter so that the nitrate and phosphate are reduced taking away what it grows from!
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15-03-2015, 10:22 AM #28
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15-03-2015, 07:10 PM #29
Just don't like stuff that your effectively guessing at the amount to use everything I have read suggest that it needs reviewing for the amount to dose! Plus I am also someone that does not grab chemicals and treat the whole pond!
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15-03-2015, 08:02 PM #30
Hi I can't bring myself to use any blanket weed treatment yet I just twiddle once a week. I need to find a blanket weed treatment that dont touch filter I look at tetra algofin as it dont hit filters back good reviews for it. I twiddle weed back to pond walls but a treatment would be better. I don't like hitting filters back its not so much the ammonia its the nitrite reading hangs ages.
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12-06-2015, 07:20 PM #31
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15-06-2015, 08:27 AM #32
Hi Tommy,
I purchased the 5g size as my pond is only 2500 gallons it was about £15,
cheers eddy
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15-06-2015, 12:33 PM #33
Hi Eddy. My pond is similar in size to yours. Did you use this at full strength? I ve only used Cloverleaf before, so at half strength. xx
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21-06-2015, 10:36 PM #34
Hi Viv,
sorry for the late reply yes I used the full dose last year & was really happy with the results, I ordered some more at £15 for 5grams came yesterday so put in bucket this morning before work with a air stone then after work it had turned a brown colour so just poured it in the pond,
cheers eddy
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