I tried sending pics but it wasn’t letting me. I will definitely try again though.
Latest update I added the other 25lbs of alum and did 10lbs of hyd lime about a week after the initial treatment. This time is cleared the water back up, and remained this way for a few weeks. We were in a 7 week drought and when the drought finally broke, on Sunday my pond, rose 3 1/2 feet overnight and the amount of sediment and washout into my pond turned it right back to square zero with less than 2 inch visibility. Today I picked up another 50 pound bag of Alum and a 50 pound bag of hydrated lime. my pH was remaining at around 6.8. I made a mistake and listened to a pond builder who suggested I raise the pH to at least eight before doing the aluminum. The prior treatments I did I use the aluminum first sprayed the slurry evenly over the surface of the water and then immediately after a slurry with the lime sprayed that evenly over top. But since I did it his way this time I feel like I might have stressed out the fish and possibly gonna wake up in the morning with a lot of dead fish. All the big bluegill are hanging up by the shore, and they are all lethargic and their movement. I was able to pick one up out of the water. my reading between 7.2 and 7.4 right now, which is my desired range, but I’m nervous to jump to 8 may have caused too big of stress on them. Any thoughts on what I can do here or what I should do here? I was thinking about adding more aluminum. Try bringing it back down to the 68 that the fish were comfortable in.
