Bill D one other thing to remember, the aeration does not turn the pond into one big homogeneous mass. At least not in my pond. Maybe if a person had excessive water movement it would.
In my pond on a hot summer day, I can swim towards an air station and about ten foot away feel a distinctively flow of cool water at the surface. The top is heating faster than the water flow from the bottom is mixing.
Who knows, maybe I don't have sufficient flow for my size pond. But I would think at the desired one turn over of water volume per day (or more) water temperatures within the pond are still going to vary.
On the other hand, in my 1/20th acre forage pond and 1/10th acre sediment pond, I may have enough air flow to keep them homogenized. But not in my 3 ace pond.
So mixing at night or mixing in the day only may not get the results imagined, unless a person has a fairly high flow rate of water to turn the pond over fairly quickly. Takes time to heat or cool or mix millions of gallons of water.
Just the way I see it. Don't know if it is right.
Last edited by snrub; 01/17/16 07:14 PM.
