Pond Boss Forums AERATION Should I aerate? Anatomy of an oxygen crash, or "Am I Willie Mays, or Jose Canseco?"

OK, you talked me into it. I'll try it. Now I need to acquire a nice source for some alum. My source that I used four years ago was really too expensive from what I've read. Especially since I had to order a large quantity. In this case I'm thinking of getting just 2-300 pounds. I'll run the jar test and see how many mg/ml alum it takes to floc the suspended residue without creating a pH spiral. I really think that if I get some of the alum mixed into the bottom sediment that I'll supress some of that bluegreen algae and minimize future algae blooms. Virtually every one of my fish are pellet trained, so an algae bloom means less to me than some other people for productivity.