RC51, I'm with you (at least thinking on the same lines)
If the stirring up is BH, how many lakes with tons of BH aren't stirred up at all.
TJ and I suspect our crays are doing it as we have all our vegetation denuded by crays and here isn't anything left for them to eat, so we assume they are stirring the bottom. But then why do not lakes in Canada that have natural rocks in them, billions of crays still have such crystal clear water you can see to the bottom? Is it the exact mix of the sediment in the bottom of our ponds? The mix of clay and sand that leads to the muddying of the water due to suspended sand/silt?
I have a variable that others don't have, goldfish, but why did my silt/grey water clear pretty nicely in the winter and go suddenly from clear to brown as weather warmed?
I don't have BG or sunfish to spawn so can't blame that.
many of us have GSH, shouldn't we all see a pattern if the GSH are stirring it up?
My pond is sheltered so wind isn't doing it.
My father in law insisted last summer that my aerator was doing it and told me to lift it off the bottom or turn it off. Did both of those things and currently the aerator isn't even hooked up and still have the chocolate colored water
