Thanks you guys for giving me some good ideas about my new pond. I will do a jar test and leave them both inside and out. I thought about this weekend to actually put a silt fence on the two banks that are still dirt to keep them from eroding. (good idea?)Hopefully it will clear up over the winter or I will have to deal with it next spring.

P.S. My pond has been murky about a month now and we bull dozed and skid steered the blue mud from the bottom thru the breached dam!