Picture this: you walk out to your pond on a nice sunny morning and the first thing you notice is that distinctive mucky pond smell. Rotten eggs and decomposing organics fill your nose. Maybe you see mats of pond algae on the surface or your prized fish gulping for air at the surface. Hopefully you’ve caught the problem before they are all floating on the surface. The culprit is most likely a lack of dissolved oxygen (DO) in your pond. Proper aeration can help eliminate all these problems in one quick and painless installation of a surface aerating pond fountain or a bottom aerating compressor.
First off, let’s address that smell that smacked you in the face. This is caused by anaerobic bacteria working without oxygen to break down organics built up on the bottom of the pond. These bacteria produce waste gas which bubbles up from the bottom making its way to your nose. A properly sized pond aeration system works to solve this problem by providing oxygen to the bottom thus shifting the bacteria from anaerobic to aerobic types. These aerobic types decompose organic matter producing harmless and odorless carbon dioxide waste gases. The aerobic bacteria also work much faster than their anaerobic counterparts and can pull nutrients like phosphorous from the water and make it unavailable for algae to use and take over a pond.
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