Thanks Funky for allowing a little "misery loves company". As far as I know I have no catfish or carp. I did catch a carp early on that must have slipped in with the FHM's, but surely I would be seeing them at feeding time it there were more. My pond holds water very well...I haven't seen any rain run-off for over a week and the pond is down about an inch or 2. It's stretches like this without rain that the surface turns into a petri dish. The cesspool gets very little wind action too. I did take water tests yesterday evening and found the Phosphates and Ammonia to be higher than usual...Phos @ 0.50 ppm and Ammonia between 0.25 and 0.50 ppm. The Nitrites, pH, TDS, and temps were all in good order. The DO was in the lower ranges, as usual, as well as the clarity...
Temps - ranged 88 to 81, Top to bottom,,
pH - ranged 8.0 to 7.5, 6" down to 30" down,
Nitrites - 0 ppm,
TDS - 78 ppm
Secchi - 10"
DO - 7.9 to 3.5 ppm, 6" down to 30" down.
I don't know enough to make any conclusions with the data other than I have a new land lease tenant and he may have fertilized more this year than the last one did. There has been no cattle on the place this year, however...he has been merely haying some of the fields.
They're calling for rain over the next 24 hours...that usually breaks the cycle or knocks it down.
