Adding lots of organic materials to a small pond runs the high risk of too much biochemical oxygen demand that degrades the water quality and often the bottom sediments to the point it suppresses the invertebrate production that is the purpose of the producing periphyton.

Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/18/15 09:55 AM.

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