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About 3 weeks ago I built a Rc51 aerator for my small pond. I have been running my trash pump several times every other, just letting the discharge hose run wild stirring it up. I have also been walking it in my waiters with a rake churning up the deep pockets of muck. Huge pocket of hydrogen sulfide , I tell enough to gag you in some spots. I did not walk it for about 4days but today when I went in I was surprised, in the shallow area when I started there was on average half a foot to a foot of muck. Today most areas I was walking on clay. The deeper pockets were hard to tell but I would say a few inches. Now I have been getting a lot of runoff from the mountain and my overflow has been running like crazy so I am sure a lot of the suspended material has been going through my overflow, but I don't think enough to make that difference. Some of my pockets of Muck are in the 3ft of muck. Pond is a little over a 10th of a acre with varying depths of 2ft to about 7ft strange geography of the bottom some spots will be shallow 3ft then boom large stretches of deep. Does removing all that sulfide gas increase reduce the muck that fast? Is it the nonstop stirring breaking it down? The pond had FA growing all over when started now there is next to none, most of the fish died which is fine because I want to drain it and make it a YP, GSH, FH pond. Probably add HSB and or some SMB after my YP spawn a year.
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