FAQs

Q: What problems do your products solve?
A: The Oase Lake Therapy product line addresses common water quality challenges such as organic sediment buildup, internal nutrient loading, and imbalanced pH levels. These products help maintain a healthy aquatic ecosystem by reducing accumulated muck, binding excess nutrients, and balancing key water chemistry parameters. This mitigates issues like algae blooms and dissolved oxygen crashes, resulting in improved water quality and healthier ecosystems.

Product Breakdown:
• SeDox: Designed for waterbodies with elevated phosphorus and nitrogen levels, which are primary causes of eutrophication. SeDox permanently binds and balances these nutrients, enhancing water quality and providing sustainable results.
• SchlixX Plus: Targets eutrophication from the sediment up. It accelerates organic muck decomposition, balances nutrients within the sediment layer, and stabilizes pH and oxygen levels in the benthic zone. Regular use of SchlixX Plus helps restore and maintain a stable ecosystem.
• OptiLake: Addresses chemical or biological imbalances in lakes, particularly those driven by unstable pH levels. OptiLake stabilizes pH at an optimal level of ~8.2, promoting a balanced environment for aquatic plants, fish, and beneficial bacteria.

Q: What does achieving balance in a water body mean?
A: Achieving balance means establishing the proper pH, alkalinity, and C-N-P ratio, creating an environment where natural organisms optimize conditions through competition. In a well-balanced system, no single organism dominates, ensuring stability and preventing problems like unchecked algal blooms. This natural competition is key to long-term ecological health.

Homeostasis
The process by which a body of water maintains a stable internal environment, even in the event of changing external conditions.

By creating homeostasis in the body of water, we help it to remain healthy even during upset conditions like external nutrient loads, elevated temperatures, and events that would normally cause pH swings. All are events that can normally lead to less than desirable outcomes such as algae blooms, DO crashes, etc.

Q: How is carbon important to a balanced water body?
A: Carbon plays a critical role in this balance, though it is often overlooked in water management discussions. While phosphorus and nitrogen levels may remain high, if carbon is also high—maintaining a ratio close to 100:16:1 (C:N:P)—nutrient imbalances are mitigated. This reinforces the idea that hyper-focusing on phosphorus alone is not a sustainable long-term solution. Instead, a comprehensive approach to balancing all key elements leads to a healthier and self-sustaining aquatic ecosystem.

Q: Why would I use SchlixX Plus in an annual maintenance program, and how much do I apply?
A: Using SchlixX Plus annually helps reverse eutrophication and reduce nutrient and organic buildup. Regular use prevents nutrient surges, stabilizes water chemistry, and reduces the risk of algae blooms and oxygen crashes.

• Initial dosage: 450lb per surface acre at the beginning of the growing season.
• Annual maintenance dosage: 100lb to 325lb per surface acre, depending on severity, applied at the beginning of the growing season.

Q: How is the phosphorus bound, and how strong is the bond?
A: SchlixX Plus binds phosphorus by converting it into the insoluble mineral apatite, which is no longer bioavailable for algae and aquatic weeds. This stable bond resists release under normal environmental conditions.

Q: What is the C-N-P ratio, and how do OASE products balance a water body?
A: The Carbon-Nitrogen-Phosphorus (C-N-P) ratio indicates nutrient balance in a water body. SchlixX Plus addresses imbalances by breaking down organic matter, releasing carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas, and binding excess phosphorus. This reduces available nutrients, increases dissolved oxygen, and supports beneficial bacteria, restoring water quality.