I have a 50,000 gallon pond with a ph higher than 10. what can i do?

Question

I have a 50,000 gallon pond with a ph higher than 10. what can i do?

Answer 1

Here is a great site for lowering your ph in a pond

http://www.northlandgardens.com/pages/wa...

Answer 2

Dump lots of vinegar (or other acid) into it?

I think it'd be easier/safer to drain it & refill it (glad I don't pay your water bills)

Answer 3

wow

Answer 4

You should ask what fish farmers do. Or call your local aquarium and see if you can find out what they do to lower the PH and keep the proper PH in large bodies of water.

Answer 5

Make it more acidic

Answer 6

buy 10 buckets of ph down

Answer 7

Add peat in your filter system

Peat moss will soften your pond water by binding the calcium and magnesium ions while simultaneously releasing tannic and gallic acids into the water. These acids then attack the bicarbonates in the water, reducing the water's carbonate hardness and pH. To incorporate peat moss into your filtration system, use a media bag large enough to contain a good amount of peat moss and place the bag in a location where water flow is high (typically within your pond's skimmer or within your biological filtration). Please note: adding peat moss to your filtration system will give your pond water a yellow tint which can easily be removed with quality activated carbon.

Determining just how much peat moss and activated carbon you'll need to maintain proper water chemistry and clarity will undoubtedly require some experimentation. Ideally, the pH of the water should range from 6.5 to 7.5, and the carbonate hardness between 2 and 8 dKH. Use a quality test kit to monitor both pH and hardness and adjust the amount of peat moss as necessary to achieve healthy pH and dKH levels.

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Answer 8

It most likely means you have very hard water, and your GH and KH must be extremely high.  You do not adjust PH in your fish water via PH up or down, that's just the same thing as poison really.  PH (potential of Hydrogen) is measured on a logarithmic scale, and thus just a shift of a tenth of a point is one full value.  So if you were to shift your PH from say 10.0 to 9.5, the new water is going to be five times more acidic then it was before.  If you already have fish in the water, this is going to do significantly more harm then good.  In addition to that, you're only going to see your PH return to what it used to be within a few weeks because it's your GH and KH that is pushing the PH too high.

Making use of a large group of driftwood and peat moss is one way to begin lowering your hardness and thus lowering your PH.  You are probably going to want to examine your tap water source as well, and take a GH and KH reading off that.  I think you are going to find that is extremely high in hardness, and thus, doing any kind of water change to the pond, is going to end up bringing your PH back up if you lowered it properly.  So in the future, once you get your PH where you want treating the hardness, you need to remember to treat your tap water when doing changes.