Are the articles that you are reading about curing filamentous algae pier reviewed published articles or just promotional material from an aeration company? Sales staff for aeration selling companies very often exaggerate aeration benefits to make profitable sales.

I would like to review a few of those articles you mention about use of aeration to control filamentous algae. Can you provide links to a couple of those articles for review?? I am always interested in seeing technical test results about benefits of aeration.

It is my experience that scientifically naive people will use or install aeration into a pond with algae. In some instances the algae decreases or is noticeably reduced. Immediately these untrained people assume the aeration fixed the problem when there are many natural biological, chemical, and weather related reasons why the algae suddenly seemed to disappear. Sales staff for aeration selling companies very often exaggerate aeration benefits to make profitable sales.

There are thousands of different species of algae and some grow in just about every environmental habitat of the world including the snow fields of the Arctic, to the hot springs of Colorado - Wyoming to symbiotic growths as tree lichens to growth on the north side of houses or on roofs. So just about anything you do to your pond nature has some type of algae that will thrive there - just give it time to become established.

I repeat " Aerators have very good benefits for improving pond water quality but reliably controlling algae is not one of the benefits."

Last edited by Bill Cody; 04/14/20 04:52 PM.
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