Thursday, 2 June 2011

Pond Aeration Basics


Adding a pond will add a classic, natural touch to your garden. It's something you'll appreciate when you've had a long day and you would like to just relax and commune with yourself. It's also a lovely sight that you can be proud of when you invite some guests over for an outdoor party or for an afternoon barbecue on Saturday afternoons. It can even be therapeutic if you feel like you're so stressed and that you just can't continue doing the things you do without pausing a moment and reflecting on things. Whatever your reasons for wanting to have a pond in your garden, you'll probably enjoy having it, anyway. But that's as long as you also know how to take care of the pond. Part of doing that is, of course, aerating it.


Your pond is going to be a place where a great lot of living matter such as algae and other microorganisms will be excreting their wastes, not to mention die when conditions are not perfect for them. During these processes, certain chemicals will be released into the water, causing a depletion of oxygen which is required for keeping the water clean and healthy for your fish. The fish alone will be consuming this oxygen in order to survive, and even when you have plants in that plant, they will not be enough to provide an adequate amount of oxygen for the fish to continue living and for the water to remain healthy. Thus, it is important to seek out over avenues by which you can increase the oxygen in your pond, and that is through the use of aerators.

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