Pond Boss Forums AERATION Systems questions Aeration in Cave Country

KYwonderer:

Greetings and welcome to the forum! It is always good to have another Bluegrass state member. The Gallus family left Lousiville for Ohio just over a hundred years ago. (You're very welcome.)

Your current spring water aeration practice sounds much better than doing nothing. In general, the higher the % of the water exposed to air, for as long as possible, the more O2 will be dissolved in it. What kind of delivery system (dribbles over the ground, flows at a moderate rate through pipes, ???) do you have for the spring water? Some of our resident tinkerers may come up with ingenious ways to get even more oxygen into the spring water.

It sounds like you have a very shallow pond indeed. Could you tell us what your use(s) of it are? What fish species are in it, do you feed them, water clarity, aquatic plants present, etc.? I think it would be correct that the fairly shallow water is likely to have decent O2 in it in the daytime during warm months since it is shallow enough to have plants in the entire volume of the pond. However, if the biomass of plants and fish were high enough, the increased biological oxygen demand at night could potentially cause problems under certain weather conditions. And you are probably more susceptible to Winterkill than a deeper pond would be, so letting some sunlight in to the pond in the Winter if there were extended periods of snow cover (like, over a week) would probably be important for this pond.