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Pro Beneficial Bacteria Premium Pond-Vive Bacteria For Ponds and Lakes The product contains several strains of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria ideal for breaking down and digesting waste commonly found in pond environments to naturally keep ponds clean, clear and healthy all year long. Application Rates: Normal Ponds: Initial Application –1 gallon per surface acre Maintenance – ½ gallon per month Slightly Troubled Ponds: Initial Application – 1 gallon per surface acre Follow Up – ½ gallon per week for 4 weeks Maintenance – ½ gallon per month Troubled Ponds: Initial Application – 1 gallon per surface acre Follow Up – 1 gallon per week for 4 weeks Maintenance – 1 gallon per month Barley Straw Extract This product has been replaced with Concntrated Barley Extract Barley Straw Extract is an all-natural liquid formulation derived from a fermentation process using only barley straw. It is a true 2-in-1 formula, unlike anything out there, which helps keep pond water clean and clear all season long. Application Rate: Small Ponds - Apply 8 fluid ounces of Barley Straw Extract per 1000 gallons of pond water every month or as needed. Medium Ponds - Apply 64 fluid ounces of Barley Straw Extract per 10,000 gallons of pond water every month or as needed. Large Ponds - Apply 1 Gallon of Barley Straw Extract per 500,000 gallons of pond water every month or as needed.

Adding the recommended dosages of Liquid, will combat a series of typical pond problems in fish tanks, water gardens, pond and large lakes. .
This is one of the most comprehensive water conditioners on the market today and offers complete water conditioning of fish ponds, water gardens and aquariums. All-In-One Water Conditioner does what would normally take several products to accomplish such as:

• Remove chlorine and destroy chloramines
• Detoxifies heavy metals
• Adds essential electrolytes
• Replaces skin slime coat
• Reduces fish stress
• Removes ammonia and nitrites
• Maintains alkalinity

All-In-One Water Conditioner is not a medication, chemotherapeutic agent or economic poison. It should be applied with regular water changes or when new water is added to maximize the dechlorinator benefits.This formulation is compatible with most other water conditioners and antibiotics, along with beneficial bacteria. It is not compatible with strong oxidizing agents and should not be used with unchelated copper medication as it will inactivate the free copper.

Pond Sealant Soilfloc® Sealant is the best polymer based sealant available for your canal, irrigation ditch or watering hole. Specifically designed to find leaks, whether in the floor, the wall or through rock formations and seal them. Soilfloc® custom blends linear and cross-linked polymers to seal any type of soil, for any sized project. Muck Remover The biological removal of muck and sludge from ponds, lakes and canals is an ecological way to eliminate organic sediments from ruining shorelines and making swimming impossible. Safe muck eating bacteria are blended from anaerobic bacterial mixtures and enzymes that specifically target the thick, black, stinky muck that is common in ponds and lakes. Solar Aeration | Bacteria & Clarifiers | Large Ponds & Lakes | Pond Pumps | Information & Articles

 

Recommended Books on Lake and Pond Management These links go to the Amazon Bookstore and as affiliates we may earn a commission if you purchase one of these guide books. Lake and Pond Management Guidebook The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the best-selling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, the "bible" for small-scale lake and pond improvements, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993. Completely revised and updated, now published by Lewis Publishers, this guidebook contains over 300 ideas and projects including step-by-step practical, low-cost solutions to a wide range of problems that lake management professionals face everyday. Coverage includes shoreline buffer installation, fisheries management, reducing nuisance algal growth, controlling exotic aquatic plants, lakeside wastewater treatment systems, small scale dredging, and more. Earth Ponds The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your land? This is the recognized standard on ponds, now expanded to include a comprehensive guide to living happily with your completed pond and keeping it perpetually healthy. Here is everything you need to know about planning, digging, sculpting, and maintaining your pond. Diet for a Small Lake The Expanded Guide to Lake and Watershed Management The expanded guide to New York State lake and watershed management, 2nd edition. Lake associations and citizens play a vital role in protecting and restoring our lakes and waterways. This book is an introduction to understanding and managing lakes. Lakes and their watersheds are natural treasures for us to use and protect. Together these rich resources supply abundant water to support thriving communities, provide recreational opportunities, and spur economic growth in an area.   Managing Lakes and Reservoirs Understandable and useful, Managing Lakes and Reservoirs addresses the enormous amount of information on lake management that has developed in the decade since the publication of the manual’s first two editions (Lake and Reservoir Restoration Guidance Manual, 1988 and 1990). The first two manuals dealt primarily with restoration of lakes, but this third edition moves beyond restoration issues to focus on ongoing management of lakes and processes that communities of citizens, policymakers, scientists, and enforcement agencies can use to achieve desired outcomes for their local lakes. Distributed for the North American Lake Management Society

Bacta-Pur® Liquid Water Treatments

**Bacta-Pur is no longer producing their liquid bacteria in North America**

All Natural Treatments For Ponds, Wastewater Basins, Lakes and Fish Ponds
I have been a fan of Bacta-Pur® liquid bacteria ever since I visited some pond managers who had tremendous results treating their ponds with the range of natural cultures from Bacta-Pur®. I visited a golf course in South Carolina who had been treating their water hazards with the product called Bacta-PUR® Pond to reduce the algae growth they had been seeing year after year.

The product contains a natural, and safe for people and all life forms, mixture of 12 strains of natural bacteria that helps to solubolize organic deposits and actually breaks down sludge and pond and lake waste products into natural fish food!

Unlike those harmful algaecides or chemical treatments, using the environmentally friendly beneficial bacteria is a way to actually holistically regenerate and rejuvenate ponds and lakes!

Fields of application include:
• Wastewater treatment (domestic, municipal, industrial, agricultural)
• Water body restoration and water quality improvement - reversal of eutrophication from lakes and bays to farm, golf and garden ponds to aquaria.
• Fresh and salt water aquaculture - increasing survival, growth, feed conversion efficiency and sustainability, from ponds and raceways to sea food holding systems.

The IET-Aquaresearch Ltd multidisciplinary team has decades of both practical and technical expertise in wastewater treatment, aquaculture, water body restoration, ecological engineering, industrial fermentation and microbial ecology. Understanding the processes involved in these different fields is one of our strengths. We provide the technical support essential to attaining the desired results cost-effectively and with respect for the environment. Technology transfer across different fields of activity is ongoing and is a key to successful use of the Bacta-Pur® System.

Improves water quality, reduces ammonia and nitrates, helps control algae naturally & removes pond muck, shock-treatment and cold water treatments. I have used and seen used the liquid bacteria called Bacta-PUR® ever since I became a believer after seeing that golf-course. When I did a little research into this Canadian company who actually "creates" this incredible safe liquid pond bacteria I came to understand that this International Company known as IET-Aquaresearch LTD, based in Canada with offices in Europe, has become one of the most prestigious and premier suppliers of Government Approved cultures for pond remediation in North America and surely throughout the world.

Natural Pond Bacteria This product has been dis-continued. Instead you can use the All Season Pond Bacteria The product contains several strains of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria ideal for breaking down and digesting waste commonly found in pond environments to naturally keep ponds clean, clear and healthy all year long. Application Rates: Normal Ponds: Initial Application –1 gallon per surface acre Maintenance – ½ gallon per month Slightly Troubled Ponds: Initial Application – 1 gallon per surface acre Follow Up – ½ gallon per week for 4 weeks Maintenance – ½ gallon per month Troubled Ponds: Initial Application – 1 gallon per surface acre Follow Up – 1 gallon per week for 4 weeks Maintenance – 1 gallon per month All Season Pond Bacteria Premium Pond-Vive Bacteria For Ponds and Lakes Breaks down organic sludge like leaves, dead plants, fish droppings, fish food, fertilizer and dead algae. Reduces odors. Harmless to fish, animals and turf plants. This fast-acting product contains several strains of totally-naturally occurring beneficial bacteria which begin instantly breaking down and digesting waste commonly found in pond environments to naturally keep ponds clean, clear and healthy all year long, while utilizing pulverized barley straw to eliminate the need for bulky barley bales, while still providing the water clarifier benefits of barley straw. After treating your pond with any sort of algaecide it is essential to use a natural bacteria to eliminate the dead algae otherwise it begins to accumulate on the pond floor and decomposes which will, with sunlight, release nutrients that cause green smelly water. Using this safe and natural product will eliminate odors, muck and green water. Safe for fish, pets, people and plants!

Alternatives to discontinued Bacta-Pur® Products

**Bacta-Pur is no longer producing their liquid bacteria in North America**


Bacta-Pur® Pond Use Concentrated All Season Liquid PV
Bacta-Pur® POND is what I like to use as a mixture between XLG and N-3000, or better yet...it is the best of both worlds that uses the denitrification properties of N-3000 plus the sludge and muck devouring properties of XLG to create one exceptional pond bacteria. This is the standard bacteria I recommend for most ponds or private lakes. It's a good product that has passed several reviews and has the references to back-up the claims of effectiveness.

A proprietary mixture of 12 strains of bacteria to help maintain clarity of water to the strict secchi disc parameters as well as the ability to solubolize organic sediments and, waste products, sediment and sludge and turn them into fish food basically! This product is recommended for ponds and lakes from 8,000 gallons to 30 acres. Please ask us for dosages and application rates as the rate of application for pond bacteria is not always a consistent ratio with large water bodies!

Bacta-Pur® XLG Use Concentrated Lake Bacteria
Bacta-Pur® XLG contains 16 strains of natural, pathogen-free bacteria specifically designed for decomposing organic sediments in ponds. This is what we often call muck or sludge. The voracious organic bacteria in XLG literally consume all organic materials in ponds and are a key tool when we are attempting to reestablish depth in a pond that has an unwanted accumulation of muck and smelly sludge at the bottom.

Bacta-Pur® XLG is an ideal bacteria in colder waters and we often use it in tandem with a dry bacteria that has certain temperature parameters that must be respected because the XLG can be added to any water body at any temperature as long as there is not any ice covering the pond.

I often treat the ponds I am taking care of with a dosage of XLG in the Autumn and in the Spring. In a way a pond is like a swimming pool because shock treatment at the beginning and end of the season is a really good idea. We would never use chlorine to treat algae or muck in a pond because it can be toxic to life but the use of a natural bacteria can only help in restore the cycle of life because the consumption of nutrients and elements by the bacteria create food for fish, insects and frogs.

When you are doing an end of season cold-water treatment with the XLG to help remove leaves that have fallen in to the pond or lake I recommend about 2 gallons for every surface acre of the XLG followed by another treatment two or three weeks later. So if you have a pond of 1 acre I would treat with 2 gallons as soon as the water temperature reaches 40 degrees Fahrenheit or around 5 degrees Celsius and then follow up with an equal application two or 3 weeks later.

This regime would be repeated in the Spring. As soon as the ice has gone, if you have ice in your location, do a shock-treatment with 2 gallons per surface acre. Follow the initial treatment with an equal-size application in two weeks. This is an ideal shock treatment! The cultures in this natural pond bacteria do an incredible job of keeping waters clear and reducing the muck buildup at the bottom. This is the bacteria that has been so successful in doing what they call "bio-dredging" where the use of microbes has replaced the mechanical digging and removal of pond and lake sediments. This bacterial mixture comes with activators which should be added, mixed and activated according to the directions. If you have any questions on the application of liquid bacteria please email us.

Bacta-Pur® Sludgebusters Use Muck Pellets
Bacta-Pur® Sludgebusters is effective at biodegrading waste and sludge waste buildups that accumulate on the bottom of ponds, water-gardens and lakes. The sludge layer, which can have a sulfur smell or a thick rancid odor like a musty organic fart, can result from a buildup of fish food that has been uneaten by koi or trout or any fish as well as leaves from trees that lose their leaves after the Autumn Solstice.

This decomposing waste material from uneaten food, leaves and fish and bird poop can accumulate and turn into a black thick sludge that can cause the clogging of pumps, filters and pond pumps! These decomposing nutrients and resulting chemical buildups can produce noxious odors and even toxic gases that could cause fish-kills or other problems! Using Bacta-Pur Sludgebusters will enable you to biodegrade these wastes and compounds which, when used properly and regularly, will result in less pollution, less ammonia, stress and diseases!

Pond owners know that there are two common forms of algae that are bound to show their mucky green faces at one time or another in the life of a pond. Often a pond will suffer bouts with algae many times during a season. While there are chemicals to help knockdown algae my approach is to use natural methods of algae control.

Bacta-Pur® N3000 Use a specialized ammonia/nitrite remover
Bacta-Pur® N3000 is the ultimate mixture of 12 strains of bacteria for nitrite and ammonia removal. The effective liquid is renowned for nitrate reduction (denitrification) as well as complete nitrite removal (nitrification). This clean mixture accelerates the startup of biofilters and of course one of the benefits we love beside the reduction of ammonia is reduced nitrite accumulation!

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