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Pond aeration

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Oxygen In Water

Adding oxygen to water improves water quality

Oxygen is the main factor in pond water quality. Not only do fish and other aquatic animals need it, but oxygen breathing aerobic bacteria decompose organic matter. Pond bottoms of organic soils demand larger amounts of oxygen. When oxygen concentrations are in danger of becoming low -- a pond aeration system will improve water quality.

Aerobic Bacteria will breath oxygen if it is available. They like a new "banquet" of oxygen from aeration so well that they grow very fast, multiplying rapidly to gigantic numbers. Aerobic Bacteria are the good guys in your pond.

Aeration speeds up this process of oxidizing or "burning up" pollution. In fact, if there is sufficient aeration, the fish will be able to survive a surprising amount of pollution in a place like a feed lot run-off pond or tertiary sewage lagoon. These are potentially good fishing spots. There is no reason for such places to be bad, even if there are occasional spills or excessive drawdowns of water level.

Pond Aeration -- By pumping compressed air out into a pond or lake bed aerator -- an air diffuser that produces tiny air bubbles -- the rising air bubbles bring bottom water to the surface where it is exposed to the atmosphere. Large volumes of water thus loose bad gasses to the atmosphere and the water picks up oxygen while on the surface. Natural bacteria attack the oil, milk, whey, manure, or whatever, from canning plants, municipal sewage plants, farms, factories, and mills.