It seems like Voodoo. What is enough & when is it to much?
When I first found Pond Boss, I thought, "This is awesome. All I have to do is follow all of the expert advice, set up my pond and fish stocking the right way, and I am good to go for many years!"
Now that I have been learning for many years, I finally realized it is always like the guy at the circus spinning all of the plates on the sticks. The pond is ALWAYS in a state of balance that can be knocked off course from several different vectors.
Even the experts on the forum have had fish kills, plants get out of control, dam breaches, etc.
The best you can do is keep adding to your knowledge base, and keep closely monitoring your pond. That way you will be wise enough to see when a plate is starting to wobble and getting close to falling - and you can fix the problem long before it is a crisis.
I think with a good healthy pond you are sometimes going to have blooms and visibility lower than you would like. Just think of that situation as you taking good care of the bottom of your food chain. I know we like to focus on the TOP of the food chain, but that can only stay healthy by caring for the bottom.
