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What is Bluegreen Algae? What do I look for? Are Bluegreen Algae harmful? What can i do to treat and or prevent Hazard Algae Blooms (HAB). Dr West Bishop dives into a very serious topic. This is a topic that all pond owners and lake managers need to be looking for

Dr West Bishop works with water everyday, and he takes some time off to teach out a little about the basic's of pH. He shows us how plants such as algae. change pH throughout the day. He also correlates Alkalinity and Total Hardness and how they play a role in how water behaves. Plus if you are asking what should your lake or ponds pH, Alkalinity or Total Hardness be than this the video you need to see. This is a great talk for a beginners and for a professional brushing up on his skills

Just fun but fundamental illustration of how ponds and lakes stratify in the summer time, and what they looks like when they turn over. Oh and a good shot of my grandma's afghan.

The thing that stands out to me most of all, as a passionate pond guy, was how we could go into one pasture and see a pristine, beautiful, clear pond with a few trees around it and then go less than a quarter-mile and see a pond the same color as chocolate milk with an orange tint. There were some ponds on that property that I swear looked exactly like the barren red dirt that surrounded it.

The first warm day of spring is here, and you hustle down to your pond or lake,but instead of seeing your beautiful pond or lake, AHH you see floating algae mats everywhere, What is it? Well come find out

Bob Lusk Editor From Pond Boss Magazine gives us some common mistakes that he has came across in his 40 year career. ten minutes of reading may save you a bottle of Tylenol.

Tap a tree. it is easy and it is fun. kid's love it. All you need is a a drill and and straw to see spring is on it's way. This is a simple way we did it. There are some great uses for maple water, maple rice, maple syrup, maple candy to name a few.

As we are all aware, pond management is not always as simple as we’d like it to be, but it’s the complexities and problems that make the challenge of pond management so fulfilling. There are certainly management aspects with which we could be more familiar to help us gain more answers than questions. In this segment of Pond Boss we’re going to cover basics of water quality, and in this first installment, the focus is on your pond’s pH.

Phosphorus is a nutrient required for life by all the organisms in and around your pond or lake. In most freshwater environments, phosphorus is the limiting nutrient, which means it’s usually the nutrient in shortest supply. But, in other parts of the country, phosphorus can be over-abundant. It’s this keystone-like characteristic that makes phosphorus so influential in your pond and so important in pond management. Fertilizer treatments in ponds with low P can triple the number of fish and one pound of phosphorus is enough to produce up to 500 pounds of algae. Whether you want a gin-clear swimming pond or a monster bass honey hole, phosphorus plays an important role in your pond.

What happens when a pond starts to fill in with surrounding sediment? Upstream dirt begins to move downhill and stops as soon as it gets to our pond. Over time, sometimes slowly or sometimes quickly, water starts to disappear, replaced by added shoreline, reduced depth, and wetland plants pop up everywhere. Small trees and brush appear, and the area that used to be water is no more.