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Water Quality




Water quality is the most important thing you need to get correct and keep your eye on at all times. Keeping the quality of the water right will insure that all fish, plants and wildlife can live a long healthy life without any of them suffering.

This is also why you should always buy the best filtration system your budget will allow you. A good quality filtration system will give all creatures living in your pond a happy and healthy life. It is not just the fish that are kept happy it is the plants too that are also important factors of keeping a healthy pond.

The larger the pond the easier it is to maintain the quality of the water. The two areas you should stretch your budget is to always have the largest pond you can fit into your garden without looking it looking silly and having a good filtration system.

water quality means healthy fish There are many reasons the quality of your pond water can change and many products you can buy, systems you can put into place and tests you can do to help you maintain a healthy pond.

Below is a list of the main areas that you need to be concerned about when having a pond.

Acid/Alkaline

Oxygen

Hardness

Chlorine and Chloramine

Ammonia/Nitrites/Nitrates

Water Temperature

Blanket Weed




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