Truth be known I was heavy handed on the Aquashade last year. I calculate the volume of our pond, 60'x160' by 7 feet deep with 3.5 pitch sides at about 188508 gallons. The water was crystal clear most of the time. Chara grew in the shallows areas and I knocked that down with Curtain-Plus. The pond is already heavily shaded. It is airly aggressively aerated with micro bubble bottom diffusers. By my volume calculation according to the manufacture it comes out to only 20 oz about every month. We have little flow through and none during most of the summer.

From what I read, the type of platonic algae is different in an aerated pond, What's that about?


So, how much platonic algae should there be? If I use a Secci disk, what would I be looking for? I'm dropping in 250000 golden shiner fry, I don't want them to starve.

Last edited by armednfree; 01/15/11 01:05 PM.