Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Pond Fertilizaion questio

I have fertilized my pond 3 times as per instructions. I am using Pond Perfect Plus. The water temp was above what it said per instructions , even though we did have some recently cold weather here in North Texas . I made my own secki disk and before I fertilized it was at 32" . I have fertilized 3 times every other week and it is still at 32" . What gives ? Do you think when water gets really nice and warm it will take off or is it money thrown away ? I have BG coming tomorrow I guess I will be feeding them , I was wanting to get my pond water right then do supplemental feeding. Any thoughts or suggestions is appreciated.

What is your pond water alkalinity?

My ph level is 7.5 and my Alkalinity is 190 ppm , I didn't check these before I did the pond fertilization , doh ! I did it just now when I saw your post, used the kit from my hot tub. , LOL

Good going! I wouldn't put any more in there until the water warms up a bit, in the upper 60's to low 70's you should see the bloom starting.

Doesn't my Alkalinity seem a little high ? I took water sample from edge of bank , going to take another from middle of pond. Kind of new to this . THANKS

Is the pond bottom bare or are there plant forms such as filamentous algae and or other bottom growing plants present? What is the water temp?

200 is perfect alkalinity for pond fish. It sounds like water temp is limiting factor currently. Don't put any more fertilizer in the pond until water temps rise some and you see results. You don't want the visibility to go from 32 to 6 as that can create major problems.

Ours is in the 190 range all the time.