Pond Boss Forums AERATION Systems questions Fountain run times

1. I run a varying number of hours depending on season and temperatures. Early Spring: 8 hours in the daytime. When the daytime air temps got hot, I switch to night time, 12 hours late Spring, 16 hours mid Summer, and 18 hours starting in September. When things cool off (October sometime), I go back to 8 hours at night until water temps get to about 50 deg F. Spring time startup, when water temp passes 50 deg F, is a ramp starting at 1 hour and adding an hour a day. (15 minute increments are generally recommended.)

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3. As Cody mentions, I use a secchi disk (made from a mudflap, white electrical tape, and an old broomstick). The majority of the regimen listed above is attempting to avoid prior fish kills that occurred when I wasn't aerating that many hours (notably the bump in September).

Bruce Condello once stated that you aren't a real aquaculturist until you've killed your first million fish. I qualify.

P.S. Bill Cody is like E. F. Hutton - when he talks, people (should) listen.