I have a small pond (we call it tank) that I’m wanting to clean up and I’m hoping I can find lots of info here.

How big is it?

Welcome Trouse from deep east Texas. How can we help?

Another Texan here... welcome to the forum!

Welcome to the forum. Ask lots of questions and provide details of your goals and your pond/ tank

Thanks guys. It’s about 130x100 I’d say around 1/4 acre. Middle is about 12’ deep. Mainly I’d like to clean it up so the kids can swim and play in it. So I guess you would call it ornamental? Looking to clear the water up as much as I can reasonably, and figure out what to do to make mowing around it easier. I have access to a decent tractor.

Welcome to the forum Trouse.

We used to call ours tanks down around our farm near Corpus Cristi. Do you know your pond bottom well? We could never swim in ours because people used to throw bottles, cans, etc. in our tanks and shoot them. Very dangerous to wade in. Just a note of caution!!

Welcome fellow Texan.

They were stock tanks to me until I met Lusk. Guys around Bowie still look at me kinda funny when I say pond.