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Tips for Spring: When to Turn Your Aeration System Back On
Spring is here, and its time to turn your pond and lake aeration system back on, and start thinking about treatments again!
Adding aeration to your pond, lake, or dugout is highly recommended to help keep your system aerobic, which stimulates “good bacteria” to help break down nutrients and organics from accumulating in your pond, prevents odours, and clarifies the water. Aeration is crucial if fish are present in your pond, to ensure adequate oxygen levels, and prevent fish kills
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20th Sep 2024
Tips and Tools for Measuring Pond Area and Volume Like a Pro
Finding both the surface area and volume of your pond, lake, or dugout can be an important step in pond maintenance. These are generally important measurements to be aware of when you have a property with bodies of water. The size of your water body will affect the amount of treatment you will need to apply or what systems you need to install as well as generally influencing parameters such as temperature, dissolved oxygen and nutrient concentration. Depending on the shape and size of your po
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20th Sep 2024
Clearing Pond Problems: Insights from Pond Pro's Product Experiment
Introduction
The health and clarity of your pond is vital for both aesthetics and the well-being of aquatic life. Pond Pro offers a range of products designed to mitigate common issues such as algae problems, high phosphate levels, and turbidity. In this blog post, we delve into an experiment conducted by one of our 2023 summer students to observe and test Pond Pro NaturalClear and QuikClear and suggest how various Pond Pro products could help with some common water problems.
The Experiment
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20th Sep 2024
Is It Safe to Use Bleach in My Pond?
With summer fully underway, many of us are enjoying our backyard ponds, dugout, and lakes for aesthetic purposes, swimming, kayaking, fishing, and more! With that being said, the warm weather, sunshine, and runoff can result in unwanted algae blooms, weed growth, and smelly water making our ponds less desirable. As frustrating as this may be, we urge you NOT to bleach or add chlorine into your pond to try and eliminate weeds, algae, bacteria, or odours.
Bleaching or chlorinating your pond may
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20th Sep 2024
Fish Stocking - What you need to know!
Fish Stocking – What you need to know!
Ponds and water features are beautiful additions to properties but you may be one of many people looking for a way to be more engaged with their project. Fish Stocking is a great way to do that! From watching the kids feed the fish, to waiting a few years to grow the 20 lb monster - stocking your pond with trout can add hours of enjoyment!
The thought of stocking your pond for the first time can be intimidating but we have the go-to list to help
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20th Sep 2024