Natural Pond Aeration Facts

Adding oxygen to a pond through natural pond aeration improves water quality and maintains a good balance to its ecosystem. This is important for the health of the fish, other aquatic animals, and aerobic bacteria needed to decompose organic matter. Natural pond aeration reduces weeds, reduces algae, eliminates foul odor, eliminates fish kills, reduces bad bacteria, and removes muck. The atmosphere and photosynthesis add oxygen to a body of water, but there are biological and chemical processes that offset the sources of oxygen. Pond aeration can occur naturally in tropical environments through typhoons, cyclones, and torrential rains, but when this natural process does not occur, the health of a pond needs to be maintained by adding oxygen.

Lack of oxygen in a pond leads to unpleasant aesthetics as well as an unhealthy life balance. The build up of organic sediment is a result of fertilizers, grass clippings, leaves, animal waste, and septic waste causing the “muck” and the unpleasant odor. The bacteria living in this environment put toxic gasses in the water including hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, carbon dioxide, and methane. These are toxic to beneficial bacteria, fish, and insects. If the pond was aerated with oxygen, this muck would not occur. Without oxygen or pond aeration, bacteria that live without oxygen thrive, and they also produce acids including phosphorous and nitrogen. These toxins also kill the good bacteria and insects that feed on the bottom of the pond.

If oxygen is present, beneficial aerobic microorganisms and insects are present, and they feed on the sediment which results in a cleaner pond. With the presence of the insects, the fish can also thrive in the pond. Good bacteria are present in an aerated pond, and they consume the organic material, and that helps balance the ecosystem. Pond weed problems have been controlled with chemicals, but when dead plants decay at the bottom of a pond, they use up necessary oxygen as well, which makes the problem worse in time.

Clean-Flo.com offers the Continuous Laminar Flow Inversion and Oxygenation System for pond aeration which is an energy efficient process that oxygenates an entire body of water from top to bottom. It duplicates the natural process and accelerates it to keep up with pollutants. It will improve fish health and reduce aquatic weeds, pond algae, foul odors, and disease bacteria. The flow inversion process is sometimes combined with phosphate precipitants and/or beneficial microorganisms to speed the result.