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Dead armadillos.... #575176 06/28/25 01:57 PM
Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 83 Likes: 6 Springfield, MO T TobyH
TobyH T Joined: Jan 2023 Posts: 83 Likes: 6 Springfield, MO	Yeah, so that's where I’ll begin. Got to our property yesterday to find not one but two dead armadillos in it. I thought little of it and just decided maybe one was chasing other and fell in, but half my banks are easy to get out. Then this morning i found a dead bluegill, maybe couple days dead. First for all that since I’ve owned the land. So, what I’ve done lately. Last two years i used copper sulfate granules to help keep the algae and southern need at bay. This year i used Crystal Blue Crystal Plex Algae Control at the suggestions of a guy at local shop. I didn’t over do it, i don’t think. And as you can see, i don’t have much algae left. I then added the blue dye a week later to supposedly help with the growth and it also made a bit more appealing for swimming which i hope we do a lot of in next couple months. But here are my issues/concerns. I have tons of BG and LMB in this pond, maybe too much. So, if something was really off, I’d think there’d be more dead. But two armadillos and a BG on the same day? And, in the corner I’m getting that film, the one i recognize because bubbles don’t pop. I took a sample and going to see if my buddy can test at his ag dept at local college. In the meantime, thoughts????