Poorly Managed Ponds

 vs. 

Well Managed Ponds

 

Their Way Inspired By Nature's Way
  • No Goals
  • Using Chemicals to get rid of nuisance plants
  • No aeration
  • Improper aeration
  • No pond maintenance
  • Generic Fish Stocking

 

  • Setting Goals for the pond
  • Bottom aeration
  • 5 billion active spores per gram in our microbe blend
  • Proper Fish Stocking
  • Physical removal of debris
  • Using Chemicals ONLY when necessary & only in proper amounts to rid pond of nuisance plants

 

Results from  their 

" Solutions"

Results from our 

" Solutions"

  • Little diversity
  • fewer protazoans
  • fewer crustaceans
  • fewer insects
  • stunted pan fish
  • stunted bass
  • Lots of problem fish
  • Murky green water
  • Organic material settles creating black muck
  • Cloudy water
  • Water has septic smell
  • Lots of nuisance plants
  • Surface films
  • Bottom sludge
  • Pond Scums
  • Tons of phytoplankton
  • Wide diversity
  • Using Mother Nature to help "clean" your pond
  • More Protozoans
  • More Critters
  • More Insects
  • Larger Bass & other wanted fish
  • Less plant weeds
  • Using microbes to help denutrify the water
  • Using Proper bottom aeration to get water moving throughout the pond
  • More oxygen in pond - oxygen is nature's cleaner
  • Clearer water
  • More zooplankton to help get rid of excess nutrients
  • Nutrients are going up animal side of food chain