{"id":697,"date":"2011-08-07T06:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T06:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/?p=697"},"modified":"2011-08-31T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T14:39:32","slug":"august-pond-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/08\/august-pond-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"August Pond Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August Pond Conditions<\/strong><br \/>\n8\/3 Air Temp 90*+, Water Temp 80*, PH 8.5, Ammonia 0, Nitrite near 0, Nitrate 5<br \/>\nPond water is green late in afternoon but nearly clear in mornings. PH is rising for some reason.<br \/>\nUsing ph lower to try and reduce, added more bacteria, cleaning filters 2x per week.<\/p>\n<p>8\/5 good filter cleaning and 1&#8243; rain &#8211; PH 8.3<br \/>\nFish are growing faster now. Algae on falls is dying off for some reason.<br \/>\nPerhaps veggie filter is beginning to work, Hyacinth is blooming and growing.<\/p>\n<p>8\/24 Was away for 16 days on business travel. Hot days with little rain. 250+ Gallon water change and filter cleaning<br \/>\nAir temp 90*+, Water temp 78*, PH 8.5, Amonia 0, Nitrates\/Nitrites 0.<br \/>\nWater is green but fish appear to be ok. Hyacinth are thriving but not enough to compete with the algae.<br \/>\nAdding PH Lower to try and reduce PH. Need to finish rock wall this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>8\/29 Added Algaefix to fight the green water. Took about 2.5 days to see bottom.<br \/>\nPH dropped to 8.0 and water temperature down to 76*. Will do major filter clean on 8\/31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August Pond Conditions 8\/3 Air Temp 90*+, Water Temp 80*, PH 8.5, Ammonia 0, Nitrite near 0, Nitrate 5 Pond water is green late in afternoon but nearly clear in mornings. PH is rising for some reason. Using ph lower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/08\/august-pond-conditions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-pond-conditions-calendar","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}