As last week, no major improvement in conditions to report. Ammonia has increased to 0.46 mg/L, at a pH 7.7 and temperature of 9.0 °C, the rate of increase was lower than previous weeks. Water clarity has continued to improved.
Testing next week will be carried out later due to availability and to ensure that we have a data point just before the chalking starts.
Latest water tests are looking good. The majority of nutrients that came in during the flooding are starting to be taken up by the growing plants, including algae. Water temperature is also nice and low Read more…
Despite being in flood, water tests are looking fairly typical for the time of year, although if the water continues to flood in we will start to see nitrates and phosphates rise higher and this Read more…
After the flooding, Darlow has now frozen around much of the perimeter, but we’ve kept monitoring the water chemistry due to the chance of increase levels of ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and phosphates coming in in Read more…