Microbe Lift Barley Straw Pellets - A Major Scientific Breakthrough! 100% Natural & Organic Ingredients Specially formulated To Naturally BalancePond Water & Improve Water Clarity Enriched with peat and humic acid, this revolutionary formula works faster &better with Less Mess & Cost and is easier to apply than bales, pillows and pads!- Matures pond water chemistry.- Disperses quickly by simple broadcast of pellets into the pond or packing in a porous fabric sock and suspending in pond oravailable chamber in skimmer or filter.- Buffers pH.- Releases decomposition by-products immediately.- Works year round.- Recommended for use with all Microbe-Lift bacterial and enzymatic pond products.Microbe-Lift/Barley Straw Pellets Pleat are rich in organic peat which softenspond water reducing nitrate and phosphate concentrations in the watercolumn. The Barley Straw Pellets+ will leave a residual on the bottom of thepond. The bacteria in the Microbe-Lift products as well as Microbe-Lift/Sludge Away will digest this organic residual. Fish will not eat the barleypellets as they contain no food value.