I sure would love to see a PB article about pond basics. I need to understand feeding, aeration, and fertilization. How does it effect the plankton bloom. There are many here who mix the water column, there are many others who have heavy fish populations and fear a DO crash. I'm hung up in the middle...and have a thousand questions.

1) With appropriate feeders in place, wouldn't the fish waste provide enough nitrites/ammonia/nitrates for a plankton bloom?
2) Assuming I'm already wrong with #1, what natural combinations cause a bloom? PH, Nitrites, Phosphate levels ???
3) If a person can naturally create the environment for a bloom, what are the water conditions and temps?

I'm sure this info exists somewhere, but pond peeps need the simplified tools to measure the dynamics, we need a measuring tool much like a RW chart. I would like to plug in my pond numbers, and see how healthy I am.