{"id":47071,"date":"2018-06-19T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=47071"},"modified":"2018-06-19T18:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T23:15:51","slug":"use-pre-1982-copper-pennies-to-keep-algae-out-of-the-birdbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/use-pre-1982-copper-pennies-to-keep-algae-out-of-the-birdbath\/","title":{"rendered":"Use pre-1982 copper pennies to keep algae out of the birdbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just scrubbed the algae out of the birdbath in the courtyard. I moved the birdbath a few months ago and it&#8217;s now more in the sun. I&#8217;m going to put pre-1982 pennies into the water to keep the algae at bay. I&#8217;d tossed pennies in before but it didn&#8217;t work. I used the wrong year pennies. When I researched it myself, I learned before 1982, pennies contained more copper. After 1982, they contain 95% zinc. I could also use a piece of copper tubing in the water. Copper is biostatic, which means that many types of algae, bacteria and fungi will not adhere to it or grow on it. Here&#8217;s my newly cleaned bird bath with the pre 1982 copper pennies in it.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespruce.com\/does-copper-clean-a-bird-bath-4140398\">Will Copper Keep a Bird Bath Clean?<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/use-pre-1982-copper-pennies-to-keep-algae-out-of-the-birdbath\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Use pre-1982 copper pennies to keep algae out of the birdbath&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/use-pre-1982-copper-pennies-to-keep-algae-out-of-the-birdbath\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/use-pre-1982-copper-pennies-to-keep-algae-out-of-the-birdbath\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/use-pre-1982-copper-pennies-to-keep-algae-out-of-the-birdbath\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Use%20pre-1982%20copper%20pennies%20to%20keep%20algae%20out%20of%20the%20birdbath&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/use-pre-1982-copper-pennies-to-keep-algae-out-of-the-birdbath\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just scrubbed the algae out of the birdbath in the courtyard. I moved the birdbath a few months ago and it&#8217;s now more in the sun. I&#8217;m going to put pre-1982 pennies into the water to keep the algae at bay. I&#8217;d tossed pennies in before but it didn&#8217;t work. I used the wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47073,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071\/revisions\/47073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}