Ted, would you elaborate on aeration and algae blooms. From what I understand of blooms from these forums, they are the algae that turn my water a nice green/brown color, and provide food for everything south of the predator fish...in my pond that would be everything but the bass. Let's assume no fertilizer...I thought aeration would provide additional oxygen to facilitate these blooms. Are you saying too much aeration can have an adverse effect on blooms, or are you talking specifically in the presence of fertilizer.

Also the comment of slowing down or speeding up a system. I infer from this that watching the performance of the algae bloom throughout the year will dictate, to some extent, what should be happening with aeration...i.e more or less. Can you talk a bit about that. Thanks