jimmydee let me make two suggestions. Have your soil tested in your watershed and pond bottom , if different. This will provide you advice based on your dirt and a baseline to work from.

Mo. ----
Soil Testing Lab
23 Mumford Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
(314) 882-0623
Contact your local extension agent or the lab listed above for soil collection materials. You can mail samples directly to the lab or to your local extension agent, but all results and recommendations will be sent to the agent, who makes recommendations and forwards the bundle to you.



Go to this link and read SARC 464. Don't worry about the complexity but it will give you a good info base. The second link below is to a very good pond water quality article by Aqua-NIc

http://srac.tamu.edu/index.cfm?catid=25

SRAC 464 Interactions of pH, Carbon Dioxide, Alkalinity
and Hardness in Fish Ponds

http://aquanic.org/publicat/state/il-in/as-503.htm


What do you want to put in the pond ? Most pond fish will do fine in 60 alkalinity water. Can you check the pH early in the am ?




Last edited by ewest; 08/29/08 08:17 AM.