Pond Boss Forums AERATION Should I aerate? Does this count as aeration?

Last year I mucked out our old golf course pond. This year I hooked up a well pump to one of the propertys massive wells located next to the pond. I rigged up the water to spray up like a fountain and land back into the water. It seems to keep all top water algae to keep clear from the surface water. Does this add oxygen to the water as well?

If I'm reading it right, you are spraying well water into the pond, correct? Not spraying the water that is already in the pond?

If so, then that is one of the correct ways to add well water to the pond. What you are doing is outgassing the well water, and allowing it to absorb oxygen from the air. Whether or not the well water, as it enters the pond, has more oxygen in it than the pond water, only a test with an O2 meter can tell for sure.

Because it splashes pond water and gets it moving it does add O2 to the pond water. But as esshup notes you need to be sure the well water is sufficiantly oxygenized. Can you post a pic of the set-up. Spraying the water into the air should do that.

Here is the pic of my well pump spraying water. It shots about 12feet in the air then rains and mists back down.It rotates 360 degrees Good setup?
http://s966.photobucket.com/albums/ae148...920001647-1.jpg

Cody, it certainly won't hurt. I don't think it will help a great deal given the cost to run your well pump.

Nothing moves water for anywhere near as little cost as a properly sized bottom diffuser.

If you changed your current spray to a flat angle along the water surface to also create a "circulation" in your water, you will gain considerable efficiency with what you are now using opposed to simply spraying it into the air.

I was thinking that it was just the only head I could find in the garage. Summer has been REALLY dry here so I am trying to add as much water as possible. Pond is at my mothers house and well trust me she can afford to run the pump $ is not the issue what I can talk her into spending it on is. Pretty fountain sprayer yes, bottom diffuser... lil tuffer. Thanks.

If she is happy, that's all that matters...lol