Filling a pond with tap water?

Question

I have pumped most of the water from my 15' round, 2' deep pond to clean debris from the bottom. Can I refill using a garden hose from the house tap or will the chlorine kill the fish and frogs? Is there a chemical I can add to conteract any negative effects of using tap water? Would it be better if I just did a slow fill from ther tap. I appreciate any good advive. Thanks

Answer 1

You can fill it from the hose. There are dechlorinating solutions from any pet store that will take care of the chlorine for you. I would suggest looking in the pond supply area for the more concentrated version of the dechlorinator, it will save you money and hassle in the long run.

You could also fill very slowly from the hose allowing the water to spray into the air as it goes into the pond, but is the pond is mostly enpty it would take a day or so to safely refill it this way.

I would suggest that you NOT use water from any source that contains fish such as ponds, creeks of rivers. That will only add diseases or parasites to the pond.

MM

Answer 2

If your hose is not brand new, go for it. (new hoses have chemical residue from the manufacturing process and need to be "run" for a while)I top off all my ponds with the hose. Just dose the pond with the proper dechlor. I usually pour it into the waterfall resivoir and run the hose from there.

As long as you have the proper amount of dechlor or Ecofix (even a dechlor for an aquarium found at walmart is fine, I use Novaqua +) in the water you will be fine and it won't take days to refill.

Also, you do not need to empty most of the water from the pond to clean it. Clean to you and I is not clean to your fish. Since you have pond fish, they eat not only some ofthe algae, but the bugs that hatch inside of it.

May I suggest try adding water lettuce or water Hythis to keep the algae and gunk down thru out the summer. Remember prior to winter, remove these plants so they do not add more nitrates to the pond. Clean up in the spring is also a little easier.

Answer 3

Maybe it is better to refill the pond with water pumped from a river, hoping there is no chemical industry around. Personally, I highly disadvise you to use Loire water near Nantes, in France, for example, where the fishes crawl on the back. But if you can find a couple of jerrycans and an enchanted river, I suppose that the result would be positive, wouldn't it?

Answer 4

the final thank you to do it somewhat is to easily use water out of your gardening hose. It has the comparable quantity of chemical ingredients as your faucet water and it will take much less time to fill. yet another approach in case you desire your pond to be up as quickly as a threat is to fill up some pots with water and bring them to a boil. as quickly as the water has reached boiling element each and all of the risky chemical ingredients have been eradicated. I did this for my pond via fact i grew to become into too disturbing to attend! i'm hoping you relish your new pond.

Answer 5

i fill my pond with water from tap using the hose. i always use water prep though as takes all chemicals out of water. my fish are all healthy and breed every year too so must be happy with what i'm doing. i get my water prep from local aquatic centre. good luck and i'm sure your fish will be fine.