Copper in water tanks

[Anonymous]

Anyone try this to keep algae growth down?
I know copper is a natural algecide.
Jessie is out getting some more goldfish right now to help with the mosquito larvae.
Just curious if anyone has tied the coPper rods or copper tubes in the tanks

 

[TexasBred]

Anyone try this to keep algae growth down?
I know copper is a natural algecide.
Jessie is out getting some more goldfish right now to help with the mosquito larvae.
Just curious if anyone has tied the coPper rods or copper tubes in the tanks

No but I've used straight copper sulfate in stock tank to eliminate the algae.

 

[rjbovine]

Last year I used a small coil of # 12 copper wire in 125 gal stock tank . Did not cure problem with algae . At times I thought it might have slowed it down some. rj

 

[Roadapple]

Vet Supply sells small bales of barley straw for just that purpose.

 

[dieselbeef]

colder water ........algae smalgae..so what

 

[Jim62]

Sounds like you got the inside track on all our energy woes. From what I've been hearing, all you gotta do is put that stuff in your truck and tractor and GO GO GO!! :lol2: :tiphat:

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Algae is a big problem if you keep a fish pond! If you have access to BARLEY STRAW, and can somehow get it to flow through a bale or bag of barley straw at the in-put to your tank/outflow from the source, this will help alot with the big nasty string algae. The small-growth algae will happen anywhere water meets sun. And, yes, some goldfish will help keep that down. But you'll never get the small stuff gone, completely, without chemicals. And the small stuff hurts nothing -- just looks bad.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

This site doesn't give barley straw all the credit I think it should get, but it's from a university site, and they are probably smarter than me.

http://www.btny.purdue.edu/pubs/apm/apm-1-w.pdf

 

[dieselbeef]

colder water ........algae smalgae..so what

so...other than appearance i dont see the issue