With a little bit of warm weather wild life begins to start. I know we have been talking about the geese in the past couple posts but we’ll leave them alone, sitting on the eggs this week. When you start hearing the chirping just about all hours of the day and into the night it […]
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First and the most important is saving our pond and fish during the summer months when thermal stratification occurs, aeration keeps the zone broken and the toxic gasses out of the pond while replacing the gasses with oxygen allowing more fish to use the entire pond since the oxygen is deeper in the pond. Winter
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Aeration or aerating ponds and lakes or adding oxygen can and will benefit the body of water but only if it is properly sized for the depth and volume of water. Over the years we sort of experimented as most do since that was all you would hear about to fix a pond “add oxygen”
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Pond Dye Packets are a cool idea, less mess no worries about freezing and easy to use. Have a ½ acre pond then you would only toss in one water soluble packet to color the water which adds shade to help to prevent photosynthesis, add 2 packets for a richer color and even more sun
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This has been a crazy year in most of the country from flooding to wide spread drought. As our ponds got smaller due to lack of rain, seeping and evaporation the chance for fish kills raised tremendously. Even large lakes had fish kills during these trying times. Here at WhatPond the ponds did drop down
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Aquatics plants that can be harmful to the pond, harm the dam and grows like wild fire. Woody plants on the dam can be very dangerous to the dam it’s self. Roots from these plants can weaken the dam and the roots can be a source for water to escape around those roots creating small
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As you can imagine planting plants, aquatic plants takes time, not just to plant them but to see year after year the results, attitudes, and characteristics these plants have. The last post sort of featured the Pickerel plant and as promised we are moving on to a couple other aquatic plants for this session. There
Dirty pond water can be a pain and ruins the fun of seeing the fish, is it actually murky, cloudy, turbid or dirty water is the first to figure out. A newly built pond will be cloudy as the rain washes clay particles and dirt into the pond. Once the pond is full and grass
Blue Pond Dye is the most used and popular color in pond dyes. Why? There’s a couple few reasons why the blue is more popular. Yes there are other colors of pond dye like Black , Black & Blue mix but the Blue is the most forgiving. I know it seems I’m obsessed with Pond
Algae and weed control was at the top of the questions at the Expo There are literally thousands of algae species and the most common asked about is the filamentous string algae. For weed problems the most asked about was Eurasian Watermilfoill which is an invasive (nuisance) species taking over ponds and lakes across the
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