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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Pearl City, Oahu, Hawaii Posts: 429
| Lee: There were a couple of threads re: shade cloth color for ponds on this and the NI board...Arthur of WA state noted that Black should be the only color used because the light shining through it was neutral showing the true color of the koi...This was confirmed by many others... I used a 50% light maize (almost white) colored cloth for my cover because, like you wanted white but couldn't find any either...My thinking was that the white would reflect the sun keeping the pond water cooler... Arthur and the others were right, the maize color casts a yellow hue on the water and koi at certain times of the day...Am seriously considering changing the new cloth, which I installed before the threads were posted, as time permits... As to the % of shade: There's a number of theories about what the % should be...Ray Jordon can give you the Japanese theory of one breeder, however, the sun is more intense here and in the Cayman Islands, than it is in Japan, so I think the % should be higher... The nurserymen here use 70% shade cloth for growing tropical plants like orchids and anthuriums to keep them from burning... Aloha! Mike |
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