Give praise alum works. - 05/31/08 02:27 AM
The end of my muddy pond is here!! I bought a property in north texas 2 years ago that had an unfinished pond on it. Water looked horrible. This past fall I had a dozer out to finish out pond which made it 3/4 acre in size. Tanked filled up over winter and spring. After learning on this site how to treat the suspended clay, I went looking for alum. I think it would have being easier to get 10 kilos of crack than 10 bags of alum in DFW. I finally found a source and was lucky enough to have a neighbor at the farm that had a tank with a trash pump. Today we put 500lbs in 400 gallons of water and spread around pond. At first it didnt look like much was happening but after about an hour you could clearly see the floc. I have never seen as much as a minnow in this pond because of how bad clarity was but within 2 hours I could see perch swimming by. The only down side is there was a big drop in ph and even the frogs wanted out of the pond!!! I went ahead and added 150 lbs of hydrated lime. Im not to worried about a fish kill at this point because I really didnt believe there were any fish in it. My next step is to get and algae bloom and then start stocking. I have pics if someone can post. thanks