12-10-2015, 02:53 AM
Welcome to the site Mike. It is good to hear your input on the fisheries.
I used to live in Utah and currently reside in Southern California.
As a PhD candidate for my Environmental Science courses, I have been spending time with my states Fish and Wildlife biologists.
We commonly encounter close to 130 species of algae in many of the lakes. Some of them being beneficial and others causing blooms when it is less desires.
We have recently started a process for the algae prevention with a great product that can be used in lakes that are up to 20,000,000 acre feet.
It is not an agaecide such as CuSO4 and is all natural. It actually adjust the N level which doesn't hurt the fish but does prevent new algae from successfull mitosis.
It is mostly required in the spring and summer, when blooms are more likely to be produced.
EC-504 is the product.
Smaller lakes have benefited with the addition of Plecostomus and in some cases further introduction of Tilapia. Tilapia by themselves serve as excellent algae bloom eaters. They survive best with Duck Moss as well as string algae. They also survive on other fish fecal matter which in turn keeps the amonia content down too.
What do you think of this natural method?
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I used to live in Utah and currently reside in Southern California.
As a PhD candidate for my Environmental Science courses, I have been spending time with my states Fish and Wildlife biologists.
We commonly encounter close to 130 species of algae in many of the lakes. Some of them being beneficial and others causing blooms when it is less desires.
We have recently started a process for the algae prevention with a great product that can be used in lakes that are up to 20,000,000 acre feet.
It is not an agaecide such as CuSO4 and is all natural. It actually adjust the N level which doesn't hurt the fish but does prevent new algae from successfull mitosis.
It is mostly required in the spring and summer, when blooms are more likely to be produced.
EC-504 is the product.
Smaller lakes have benefited with the addition of Plecostomus and in some cases further introduction of Tilapia. Tilapia by themselves serve as excellent algae bloom eaters. They survive best with Duck Moss as well as string algae. They also survive on other fish fecal matter which in turn keeps the amonia content down too.
What do you think of this natural method?
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