Do your fish need more breathing room? Sometimes there’s just a fine line between of surviving or suffocating for these guys. The pond and fish may survive for many years but as time moves on the chance of a fish kill will increase. Not to mention the pond getting out of control with weeds, algae and muck.
It’s not just about surface area, as seen in the picture, but gets deeper involved than just the surface of the pond. Sure we do get some aeration on the surface naturally from wind and what little waves are generated and if we have a stream that may be running into the pond over rocks that help to add oxygen to the water but what about the depths of the pond?
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