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    Thread: Well water treatment

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      jasagis is offline Junior Member
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      Well water treatment

      Hello,

      I am looking for options to use my well water instead of city water. The city water is getting to be way to expensive. I am in South Florida and my well is an irrigation well anywhere from 25-40 foot deep (not sure exactly). The water comes out fairly clear and has a slight hydrogen sulfide smell, but nothing to bad. I took the water to our local sprinkler place to test the ferrous iron (they test there because they recommend how much of the sprinkler liquid treatment to use to eliminate staining) and it wasn’t to bad. Sorry, It was a while back and I forget the exact reading. I found and old thread on here that talked about building a degassing tower using plastic forks that feeds to a lava rock TT by user names Griff. He said the iron attaches to the lava rock as it passes over. This morning I tested the PH of the well water immediately and it was 7.4. I then aerated the water for an hour and it raised to 8.2(this is the normal PH of my pond in the afternoon and also my city water. The KH of the well water is about 200ppm. Down here the well water passes through lots of limestone. Tests also showed no ammonia and no nitrates. I have a 400 gallon holding tank that I was thinking to use to pump well water into and then aerate and treat the water before using. I’m looking for the best options as to how to treat. I quickly put together a tower with the plastic forks and some lava rock today to give it a try. I will need a way to test the iron level after this tower. Also wondered about EDTA to chelate metals? Also wondered about using PP to oxidize the iron. I was also thinking to run the water through a carbon block before it goes into the pond after the other treatments. Thanks in advance for any help!!


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      I've been using our well water in my 2500g pond for about 8 years and neither the Koi nor the Goldfish when they were seem to mind. Neither do the frogs. I rarely do anything to it as it's pretty stable straight from the well, although, high in Fluoride. Personally I the fish are more resilient than people make them out to be.. I've only ever had one fish have an issue and I felt that was more due to temperature shock than anything else. Can't say how a lot of iron affects them as our well doesn't have that much.

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