Pond Boss Forums AERATION Should I aerate? Should I run the aerator just at night?

This is what we do for our Yellow perch pond. In the winter months we run it 24/7 but in the summer it is 7pm to 7am and only in the shallows.

When I would aerate the deep water air-stations we would loss fish. Even when we would turn on the deep water air-stations when the surface temp was 55F we would loose fish.

We now just run air-stations in the 5 foot depth for 12 hours at night. Along with our waterfall that runs 8000 gallons per hour into one deep end of 12 foot.

We haven't lost any perch since we have change this and this year we have the best young hatch we have every had. We did have some rainbow trout but a pine Martin decided to clean them all up for us.

Cheers Don.