I have never used anything other than Aquashade and am quite happy with it. I have found the axiom "you get what you pay for" usually applies. However I only use it in a temporary holding pond where I intensively feed fish and am not concerned with natural food production. It really helps keep the macrophytes down considerably. I would use it in my main pond where I feed feed trained bass, perch, and bluegills but it is flow through and I understand it is illegal to allow this dye to run into other areas of a watershed. I'm sure it would give false reading to spectrometer type water quality testing devices.

Good information Kelly. How about some imput on pond bacterias? If you are as well versed on that as the dyes I would like to hear it.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.