Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Aeration & Mechanical Turbidity

IMO the Vertex suggestion is okay to use in YOUR case. With cloudy turbid silty water you do not have a 'strong' bloom to cause nightly DO loss. Plus leaving the aeration off for just a week will not create a large enough anoxic deep water layer to be a large problem when you restart the aeration after 12-14 days. Try to make some sort of homemade Secchi disk or use an all white coffee cup on a cord with knots every foot as a water clarity / visibility tester to actually daily measure how fast or much the cloudiness is settling toward the bottom. From the little that I know about your pond conditions and with diffusers on stands off the bottom, I don't think the major turbidity problem is due to aeration. I suspect the turbidity issue could be caused or generated by some other pond "problem" because as you say it is probably rain muddy water runoff events. Aeration is tending to keep the silt / detritus more suspended once it has been moved or introduced into the water column. Keep in mind that when the silt settles the upper most silty water layer may not have "hit" the bottom in two weeks. It may take 3-8 weeks for this uppermost silty water layer to reach the bottom depending on all conditions. Restarting the aerator could just lift this unsettled layer to the surface. closely watch the water clarity coming up in the surface boil as clear or turbid when you restart the aerator.