Thread: shallow water pvc

Originally Posted by Yates

sand the pvc the algae will grow a lot faster...a
if you don't sand it can get thick and slide off

Great advice. Thanks

Originally Posted by Yates

sand the pvc the algae will grow a lot faster...a
if you don't sand it can get thick and slide off

I've also heard of taking Christmas garland and draping over the pvc

Drill a hole, about 3/16" close to the top. insert a limp in pvc and put a screw to hold it in place, years later, when limb rots away, replace it.

Originally Posted by CrappieKillerJigs

pvc just takes a long time to grow algae witch in terms takes a long to bring in zoo plankton and stuff that feed on the algae then the minnows witch feed on the zoo plankton and so on....but after a few year PVC beds will hold alot of fish

Originally Posted by cricket george

Has anyone ever recovered any PVC structures to see if the algae sloughs off? Has anyone ever checked to see how much biomass was on a PVC structure after 30 - 45 days? I have. The biomass was covering the PVC after 45 days and it was h..l trying to lift up because it was so slimy. This structure was NOT sanded when I installed it.

If the structure is dropped into water that has sufficient depth that the crappie, and other game fish, are currently using then the attraction with be almost immediate.

The Okla Dept of Wildlife Conservation has dropped fresh cut cedars into piles in state lakes and gone back the NEXT day and electrofished crappie and other scaled fish off the structure. No waiting weeks for the algae to build up or cedar oil to leach out of the wood, the next day the fish were on it. This has been done on several occasions and the results were the same.

Yes....we dropped our underwater camera on our PVC bed. It only takes about a week, sometimes less, for algae to start growing on the PVC. OUr PVC is entirely unsanded and completely covered from tip to tip with green/brown algae.

The pvc that is absolutely covered has been in the water for a couple years now, the new pvc began algae growth approx a week to 2 weeks after initial drop.

Originally Posted by canebreaker

Drill a hole, about 3/16" close to the top. insert a limp in pvc and put a screw to hold it in place, years later, when limb rots away, replace it.

Cut off cypress limbs, install in pipe, run a screw thru it and chunk over board.

go lay a piece of pipe out on the side of your house and cover it with leaves. It will suprise you how much will grow on it in a short period of time. I season mine by leaving them outside with leaves and nature on top. Then when we need some we pull them out and the white pipe is usually brown with all kinds of neat stuff growing on it.

Thank you pineappleslap for your added input.

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