Here are the acronyms:
Pond Boss Acronyms but you make a good point, we do not have White Perch on the list. White perch are not a perch at all and are invasive in the great lakes system, but it makes sense to have an entry on the acronym list for them.
I would say we keep YP as Yellow Perch and add a WP for White Perch but I do not know who the 'Big KOTA' is on the forum (KOTA is Keeper OF THE Acronyms)
Thanks for your replies and helpful advice about your struggles with duckweed and aerators.
Usually a pond that starts having more problems with weeds and especially duckweed or watermeal means a pond that is starting to 'age' or build a nutrient load (eutrophic conditions). The nutrients can be loaded up on the bottom which the only solution that is immediately effective and long term effective is to dig out years of muck and refill. You are aerating which should help. You can research muck reducing tablets too.
If the bottom isn't too loaded up then it could be heavy runoff or run-in to the pond of nutrients. That is harder to control but there are topics on here about nutrient fences, and chains of smaller 'silt ponds' to capture nutrients.
