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Hello All!
Can you use Blue Pond Dye and fertilizer at the same time / within a short time frame? We have a 3 acre pond and just put one gallon of BPD in, in a week or so we will put two more gallons in. Can we also fertilize the pond during this process? Should I just check the water and see what that says? This is all being done in an attempt to control angel hair algae.
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Dye will not kill the algae, just slow its growth and almost put it in suspended growth state. Dye is designed as a preventative not a cure. You will not get much of a bloom as long as the FA is present. Dye suppresses the bloom same as it suppressed FA growth - reduction of red & orange light wave lengths are one of the requirements of chlorophyll a in plants including algae.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/23/14 10:42 AM.
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Thank you for your reply Bill. What is FA? Can we use Fertilizer while using dye?
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JM I am no pro at this but I don't think your gonna wanna fertilize at this point?
I am not for sure but with pond dye and fertilizer at the same time I think you are butting two heads together. Almost like trying to put to negatives of a magnet together it just wont work.
If it were me I would get my angel hair algae under control first. Maybe fertilize in the spring. There is a whole section on here about how and when to fertilize I would read up on it before you do anything.
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FA is filamentous algae... the angel hair algae is one type of FA
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Thanks everyone for your input! Have a great one!
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