Farm Pond Solutions
Farm ponds offer unique challenges as they often suffer from green algae blooms, string algae or blanket weed, low levels of oxygen, weed growths and foul orders. We offer several solutions to make your farm pond, more attractive, more useful, and more productive. Listed below are some of the solutions we offer for farm pond improvements.
Clearing Green Water: For ponds over 30,000 gallons and up to 2 acres that have green suspended algae due to the presence of excessive nutrients , the Hydra Aquatic Boost benifical bacteria treatment rapidly removes the nutrients . Without this source of food, the algae presence is quickly reduced and the water clears.
Removing String Algae: String algae or blanket weed, can be removed by using the Hydra Quartz. This granular solution, applied directly to the string algae, will destroy the akgae on contact. Periodic maintenance doses will prevent the return of the string algae.
Preventing Stagnation or Turnover: Pond Aerators can be used to oxygenate water in ponds, lakes, reservoirs, aquaculture tanks or aquariums. Proper aeration is essential for a healthy pond or water garden. Oxygen is the single most limiting factor in aquatic environments. Every effort should be made to provide and maintain adequate oxygen levels in your aquatic systems. During the summer season, a pond aerator can be used to provide sufficient amounts of oxygen within the pond and mix the cooler water from the bottom of the pond with the warmer water near the surface of the pond. A much healthier environment within your pond is created by this deep water circulation. During the winter, an aerator can be used not only to provide oxygen to the pond, but also to provide water movement at the surface to keep an area at the top of the pond from freezing.
Water aeration is often required in bodies or water that suffer from anoxic conditions, usually caused by adjacent human activities such as sewage discharges, agricultural run-off, or over-baiting a fishing lake. Aeration can be achieved through the infusion of air into the bottom of the lake, lagoon or pond or by surface agitation from a fountain or spray-like device to allow for oxygen exchange at the surface and the release of noxious gasses such as carbon dioxide, methane or hydrogen sulfide.
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a major contributor to water quality. Not only do fish and other aquatic animals need it, but oxygen breathing aerobic bacteria decompose organic matter. When oxygen concentrations become low, anoxic conditions may develop which can decrease the ability of the water body to support life. Hakko pumps and diffusers as well as the Rocking Piston Compressors and Lake Diffusers can be used to solve this problem.
Controlling Weeds: The rapid growth of unwanted weeds often occurs in farm ponds. As more and more localities do not allow herbicide usage. often times the manual removal of weed growth is the most viable option. The WeedRazer and WeedRazer Pro allow you to cut these weeds below the surface of the water, and the WeedRaker enables you to remove the cut weeds from your pond.
Improving Appearence: The addition of blue water dye, can make your pond more visually appealing as well as reduce the penetration of UV light that promotes algae growth.
