Good point Bing, and working with Ted Lea he approached this the same way. He knew it was an old pond and to not start it up too aggressively. I was probably the one that didn't pay enough attention to the one deep diffuser. There was no smell after the 2nd or 3rd day of running 30 minutes (first 2 days 15 minutes). But once I got up to 24 hrs the deep one was probably a contributor. It's still off and we're giving it another week, then very slowly start bringing it online.

Regarding the fish kill of maybe 100 in my 2 acre pond, there were many large dead carp found as well as some 13" crappie, and as I don't want them in the pond anyway, it may have been a blessing. And, that there have been no more floaters since the first big ones were discovered last Sunday grin

Thank you all again for your thoughts and input!

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Keith - Still Lovin Livin

https://youtu.be/o-R41Rfx0k0
(a short video tribute to the PB members we met on our 5 week fishing adventure)

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