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De-Icing System Sizing Guide: How to Pick the Right System for Your Pond or Dock
Learn how to size, install, and position a pond or dock de-icer for cold climates. Protect your fish, docks, and boats from ice damage with these practical tips.
When winter sets in, protecting your pond or dock from ice damage doesn’t have to be complicated. The right de-icer can keep a small area open all season, allowing gases to escape ponds and preventing costly structural damage around ponds or lifts.
Pick Your Purpose
Before anything else, determine what you are trying to protect or
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28th Nov 2025
Expert Aeration and De-Icing Consulting Services for Lakes, Ponds, and Municipal Water Bodies
Pond Pro Canada is a nationwide and biologist-owned company with over 27 years of experience in the water industry. Among the many products and services Pond Pro provides, we also offer aeration and de-icing consultation for a variety of applications including:
Private lakes and ponds
Recreational lakes
Municipal ferry docks
Municipal raw water reservoirs
Municipal wastewater lagoons
Pulp and paper distillate equalization ponds
Stormwater ponds
Industrial leachate ponds
Aeratio
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6th Feb 2025
Benefits of Pond and Lake Dye and How to Apply it to your Pond?
Pond and lake dye has numerous benefits for your pond! Not only can pond and lake dye converts dreary and murky body of water into a beautiful, natural- blue or turquoise oasis, but it can also reduce algae blooms and weed growth, and help protect your fish from birds.
Pond Pro offers a beautiful blue dye to give your pond a natural blue tone, as well as turquoise to make your pond or lake look like a cool, rocky mountain spring.
How does pond dye benefit your pond?
Weed and al
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20th Sep 2024
Ultimate Guide to Preparing Your Pond for a Vibrant Spring Season
Your pond, lake, or dugout experience significant changes when spring rolls around. Spring in Canada usually comes along with highly variable temperatures ranging from double digits in the positive range, down to double digits in the negative. We can also experience greater levels of precipitation from snow, sleet, rain, to hail. These environmental factors all take direct and indirect tolls on your pond, so make sure you know what happens to your pond every spring, and how you can best
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20th Sep 2024
How to Properly Store Pond and Water Treatments in the Winter
As winter rolls around you may be left with unused pond products from the summer months and wondering if you can use them next year. The answer is, YES! Pond Pro’s products have long shelf lives and can readily be tucked away for continued use the following season! We do urge you to ensure that products are stored properly, so we have outlined general storage guidelines for some of our most popular products below:
Bacteria:
Pond Pro’s line up of beneficial bacteria is highly effec
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20th Sep 2024