It has been 12 hours since I added the second dose of Alum and it has finally shown some improvement. My visibility is now 14 inches and I hope much more when I wakeup in the morning. As soon as I added the 100 lbs of Alum I noticed the floc happening especially by the aerator. I left the aerator on to disperse the Alum throughout the pond for 8 hours and now I have shut it off to let it start settling.
My PH is at 6.8 so I did not add any Hydrated lime this time.I guess I put just enough Alum where it did not cause my PH to plummet. I am guessing the PH is steady now so I am in no danger of it crashing overnight.
I do have another question about the fish in my pond for the last several months. The fishing has been horrible for some time now. When the pond got muddy initially about 1 year ago,I was still able to go out and catch fish regularly. For the last several months though, fishing has been awful even with live bait for perch. When I do catch a perch or bass they are mostly white with little or no color,I guess due to the lack of sunlight reaching
under the water. Should I be concerned with this awful fishing or should it improve when the water clears. I have never so much as seen 1 dead fish in my pond, so I know they are still kicking, but not eager to take my bait. I just recently started to feed them again with floating food and they are even slow and lethargic eating that. Is this
normal for muddy ponds?