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muck #579779 06/27/26 08:00 AM
Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 145 Likes: 12 MI J jim100
jim100 J Joined: Apr 2020 Posts: 145 Likes: 12 MI	Do the muck reduction products really work? Noticeable? Thanks.

Re: muck jim100 #579782 06/27/26 10:12 AM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 15,993 Likes: 1496 Northwest Ohio - Malinta OH B Bill Cody Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker
Bill Cody Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker B Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 15,993 Likes: 1496 Northwest Ohio - Malinta OH	Muck reduction products and microbes work pretty good if you can periodically mix the muck layer to get dissolved oxygen down into the muck layer. Otherwise a lot of the lower muck layers have no important oxygen for the best fastest working bacteria and invertebrates to do their job of decomposition. Last edited by Bill Cody; 06/27/26 10:14 AM. aka Pond Doctor & Dr. Perca Read Pond Boss Magazine - America's Journal of Pond Management

Re: muck jim100 #580259 08/27/26 09:30 PM
Joined: Mar 2016 Posts: 100 Likes: 6 St. Louis, Missouri M MOFishermen
MOFishermen M Joined: Mar 2016 Posts: 100 Likes: 6 St. Louis, Missouri	Do you need bottom diffuser aeration to make the products work? Would a larger surface aerator work? I Subscribe to Pond Boss Magazine To Fish or Not to Fish? What a stupid question!

Re: muck jim100 #580260 08/28/26 08:34 AM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 14,674 Likes: 509 40 N, 82 1/2 W Theo Gallus Moderator Lunker
Theo Gallus Moderator Lunker Joined: May 2004 Posts: 14,674 Likes: 509 40 N, 82 1/2 W	Bottom diffusers are far, far, more effective at getting O2 down to the bottom of the pond where, as Dr. Perca states, it helps with muck elimination. "Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
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Re: muck jim100 #580261 08/28/26 11:50 AM
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Alligatorob A Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 22 Likes: 1 Northern Utah	I'd guess a diffuser without adding anything else would work as well as with those products. Might try that first, before spending money.