Water Quality

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

Dr. West Bishop one of the best, rolls up his sleeves and punches out some major knowledge on algae. Here you learn algae is more than the green stuff floating in your pond or lake. We dip into a little of the identification, what to look for, and what to do to prevent and treat this amazing but simple creature. If you click here you better have your coffee because you will get your" learn on"

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.

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.

This Is a Really cool Way of explaining something hard.

Private Water Does not end at the waters edge. It ends at the top of the hill surrounding the lake, so what you do and even what you plant can affect the water quality in your pond or lake.