Sorry guys if I left you hanging with no follow up report on my part. So right now the pond has come up around 3' from the rains and the water visibility remains at or around 11" of a light green with colloidal clays suspected from the rains. But the low visibility could be coming from detritus that was or is stirred from the bottom of the pond. So right now it is a wait and see if things will settle out. I am figuring I got around a 30% dilution of the pond water. It lacked about a half inch from rising enough to go through the syphon. My syphon pulls from about 6' water depths and that is due to the ponds bottom design. It does not pull from the 12 water depth, the deepest part of the pond.
Bill Cody ran a test for me and provided some information for me to think about. It was determined that a lot of the low water clarity came from Detritus that was or had been stirred from the ponds bottom. Bill C. and I discussed what might be disturbing the ponds bottom and I don't see anything in the pond that could do that. No bullheads, no catfish, and no carp or goldfish. There are a few crawfish around but with the lmb in the pond that pretty much eliminates any possibility of excess crawfish in the pond. But, if I understood all of it, there was a possibility that really small microorganisms are hard to distinguish from detritus. And I find it too coincidental that shortly after adding a biological treatment to the pond the water visibility reduced to 9 or 10" of a light colored cloudy water. But there is one more possibility. I think it could be the diffusers stirring up the bottom in a pond that had reduced amount of water in it due to drought. So, starting soon I will restart the aeration and I am going to reduce the hrs diffusers will be run. I am going to run them no more than 12 hrs per day instead of 24/7. And I am going to run them only at night. Hopefully, to reduce the hot water I saw this past summer. Mr's Lusk's Wednesday evenings facebook program lead me to this change from what I have been doing with the diffusers.
After all this with the frustration experienced, if I don't get back to where the water used to be I might just pull my hair out and say screw it.
