As many pondbossers know the pond is an ever demanding quest for perfection! We installed an aeration unit that has surpassed anything I could have hoped for. Our water quality has improved so much and the health of our fish and ecosystem after the aeration is just hard to believe. The algae issues we attacked from two directions. First we reduced the nutrient loading by planting buffers in and around our water shed and I control what the farmer puts on my fields and when. Now we are in a major drought! Our pond is as low as I have ever seen it! We are down 12 feet and I have an excessive amount of fish in a small area. I have been keeping close eye of the fish and the water quality and have cut feeding in half! WELL��� THE FARM 3 MILES AWAY just drilled a major well for irrigation and with in 5 days of coming on line he drew our water down two feet! Enough is enough! If you can�t beat them join them! We are building a new home and I needed a new well anyways���so I talked the wife into a 28gpm variable speed pump on a 6 in case drilled to 110foot. With this set up I can get 28gmp at the pond open flow and still have 13gpm to the new house. With the pond cut off I can supply the house and more irrigation zones than we need. After the well was drilled I ran 600 foot of 1.25 poly to the pond and started pumping for 4 hours at a time. My concern is the lack of oxygen in the well water and the fact that the well water temp is 51dg F. The PH on the well water is 6.72 and the ferries iron is 5ppm with no nitrates. I have been pumping from from 11am to 4pm for 3 days and have added a lot of water and thus far all is well with the fish and they are eating like pigs! Here are a few pics of the well and the pond. [url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=511406&c=500&z=1"] [/url][url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=511408&c=500&z=1"] [/url]

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