Natural Strategies for Pond Management
Ponds are complex environments that contain a dynamic combination of living and non-living components. The living components may include animals, such as fish, turtles, and frogs, as well as occasional visitors, such as waterfowl, pets, and livestock. The pond’s plants may include various rooted aquatics, floating aquatics, suspended aquatics, and slimy aquatics that lay on […]
Fish & Bacteria Can Control Algae!
My previous article, published in August of 1998, focused on “Ecological Controls for Healthy Ponds.” This approach stressed the advantages of employing multiple management tools to reduce costs and to minimize environmental damage. These tools included: (1) restricting nutrients entering the pond; (2) using biological controls, such as fish and beneficial bacteria; (3) using aeration […]
Natural Controls for Healthy Ponds
Once when I was a young boy, standing on a beach in Florida, I looked skyward and noticed a low flying plane, dropping what looked like water out of it’s bomb bay doors. “What’s that,” I asked. “Why that’s DDT, Ronnie, and it’s going to kill those pesky mosquitoes that are always trying to eat […]