Ewest what I have read in some literature (I believe from some governmental agency literature) is that in 8' or less they consider the wind will generally give enough water circulation that aeration is not beneficial.
I think most here on PBF would disagree with that statement, but I have seen that stated in literature.
As I recall they were also not mentioning anything about pond capacity being pushed with artificial feed. I got the impression they were talking about low management ponds to begin with. We know how some of the "official" recommendations are way behind the curve of actual practice.
I suspect their statement is true a good share of the time. I know in my location where my pond is open to the southwest and gets good Kansas wind "most" of the time if the pond were not being pushed with feed AND the pond was fairly new with little accumulated problems wind circulation would be fine 99% of the time. But where I feed and push production it is that 1% that I am worried about.
Few ponds are aerated around here and I have never heard of a fish kill (although I am sure there are some) but maybe 1% of the ponds get fed artificial feed and some sort of active management.
I think the more a person manages a pond and pushes production, the more he has to manage it to prevent problems. Including aeration in lieu of relying on the wind for keeping a pond de-stratified.
Last edited by snrub; 05/04/17 10:41 AM.
