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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 …

As the new year is upon us, you might start thinking about your spring and summer projects. If building a new backyard pond, or dugout is part of your plan, consider the following to make sure your pond is constructed correctly for its intended use and how to properly maintain it! Intended use of this new pond or dugout: The intended use of the pond and dugout is going to greatly influence how it is constructed. Will this pond stock fish? If the intended use of the pond or dugout is to stock …

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 …

Windmill versus Electric Aeration - 10 things to consider when choosing aeration Technology has advanced so much that the once idealized windmill aeration system is becoming less and less popular. The industry leading electric aeration systems are superior to windmills, in so many ways that an electric aeration system is recommended if power is within 1500 feet. The cost of trenching power to the pond will be made up for in cost-savings and reliability of  high efficiency aeration …

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 …