We bought an EasyPro Pond Aerator system for our pond about 2 years ago, and we are finally installing it. But I didn’t follow the directions and I may have killed all my fish.
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This is why the pros use a paddle wheel… I plan to be a pro one day so its all part of the learning path I suppose..
You shouldn't have cut down that willow tree.
I don't have time to read the comments sorry.
May have already been covered.
Your pond is beautiful…… take better care of it.
"Soil food web" google that dive deep
install a fountain, it naturally aireates it and looks awesome. i purchased a 2hp sump pump and plumbed it with the flex pvc used with hot tubs . it allows for fluctuations of water levels. then use a large planter with great stuff to make float. the nozzle is a short section of pvc through the float and a 1-14'' male adapter to attach the threaded pvc cap nozzle. I drilled out grease zerks and threaded into the cap along with an air fitting, drilled larger, for the center nozzle. it sends a center up about 20' with 6 15' side nozzles. looks great.
Yea you def up to a restock on that pond !!!
Why all thia work and money? Why not juat scoop the duckweed??
You have helped millions by posting this vid I know it had to really hurt but your a true bad ass dude for sharing this not to many people if any could do what you did your one of a kind you might have lost some fish but let me tell you have saved tens of millions of fish just by being completely honest with the world your a bad ass dude Thanks for posting this
Just wanted to say thank you again for taking the time to post this. I would have never imagined in a thousand years that aerating could ever hurt the fish. I feel so bad that you had to go through it :(. I hope your pond is doing ok now!
Should have gone with a fountain… suck and spray surface water… way safer and will cool a bit too.
Looks like you got rid of about 30% of the duckweed, good job….
As others commented that the disaster couldn’t be avoided, but not is lost in finding the reason to avoid it again. Also, hopefully you used the dead fish to enrich your compost, so it wasn’t in vain that they regrettably perished. Always remember that to not try, you’ll never know if you succeeded or will learn from a failure. You have my full respect
Mistakes made.
Sorry for what happened to you. On the other hand just think of how many other ponds that you will save by what you've done here.
Throwing in a bunch of grass carps would've sorted out the duck weed problems. Yeah but really sorry for your losses
I wonder is using the stones but not all the way to the bottom would help. Surface agitation is the number one thing that adds oxygen. The amount of bubbles under the water makes no difference. Just need to cycle the water on the surface that is exposed to oxygen
At 12:05,I looked inside your cabinet,where's the fan? I see that big cut out circle on the right,thinking,that's where the fan should go.
BIG Thanks & Sorry! See below the way I see it—-
1) 22 min video teaching others what not to do…applaud you!
2) Saved folks from throwing away 5 years of stocked pond
3) Killed 1000+ fish in your pond
4) BUT, showed 137,000 subscribers how to keep from killin each of there ponds 1000+ fish, mean you have saved approx. 137,000,000 million fish from your demise!
Hard lessons learned BUT learning from lessons with massive gains!
Excellent post and thanks again for you sharing your time with the masses! ❤😮
Hello from Brazil! The easy way would be to add some fish, Ctenopharyngodon idella. This specie will eat all those duckweed. Very efficient, they are spetacular.
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I am sorry for your loss! Thank you for the lesson.
Im sorry this happened buddy but I was debating between aerator and fountain and now I have my answer. Lol
The passing of knowledge. Is what makes youtube great.
Sad to see and for you 😢
I'm no expert, but isn't the duck weed natures way of taking the extra nutrients out of the water, would it not of eventually found its own balance ?
Too bad about the fish. Nice porch on your house.
Ah! 😢 thank you for making this video. I probably would’ve made this mistake, but thanks to you, my fish will be saved. I’m so sorry. Watching this makes my stomach hurt.
What about draining the pond? And cleaning out the muck? For smaller ponds?
dude has no idea what is the meaning of understanding the shit that your dealing with. Imagine I been fixing boots all my life and suddenly I want to replace my fuse box from my electrical consumer unit. Yeah the fish will never forgive you just as the electricity will not care if you have any idea of what your doing or not. If you do things that you dont have education or experience in, you may end up with killing people or killing yourself. And this phenomena is really common in a lot of cultures. The worst is when just like this friend here. He had the best of intention. that say a lot about his understanding of the risk evaluation or awareness. Call it bad luck but in fact is a mix of Ignorance and lack of self awareness and risk evaluation.
good on you it took balls to post this
Advice for aeration machine / certain product / brand for my .8-acre pond? I’ve done cleaned it up and got it heading in the right direction but it’s pretty shallow mostly and it’s well hidden around big group of trees and kinda in a little valley ? I’d appreciate some help
How many times you gonna say you killed all your fish?
I have done the same thing. I had worked up to running it 24hr straight, but the diffusers lost power for about 7 days due to electrical issues. I just turned it back on when the electrical issues were fixed. The next day when I drove by the lake, there were Egrets everywhere. I didn’t think much of it at first. The next day, about 48hrs after turning the diffusers back on, I got worried with all of the egrets. Of course, when I pulled up on the levee my heart dropped. Luckily, I only lost some bluegill, and not all of them. The bass hadn’t been stocked at that time, and the lake designer designed the lake to where the “whole lake” would “never” turnover at 1 time. (I don’t know how he did that with his layout, water depth, diffuser locations and what not)
I hope your pond will be up and running soon, Sorry to hear that you lost your fish, we all learn by our mistakes, your only Human 👍
1:15 biggest mistake you can do is try to kill the thriving plants consuming the nutrients that are the symptom of your nutrient problem. Should have rigged a 3-6’ diameter floating wheel (could have battery rotation). Removing the plant 🌱that is thriving on the faulty nutrients will: remove the faulty nutrients while plant will continue to regenerate until problematic nutrient depletion
18:38 mechanical harvesting is cheaper and less risky to balance
I did not read all the comments but trying to see the weed at 19 at the beginning that is not duckweed but watermeal. Duck weed has 4 small round spouts like a clover leaf and watermeal is a single very small rooted plant about the size of this small o. If it is watermeal it is the smallest rooted bearing plants in the world. And terrible to control. Information can be found in a search so will not go there, just wanted to say if that is duck weed it will clearly have 4 round shaped O leaves like a clover. If I did not see the plant good ignore my comments. I do have a terrible watermeal issue in my pond thought. And the pesticide to destroy it can be found online is costly. And if an aerator is set on the bottom of a pond and stirs up the muddy water it will deplete the oxygen out of the pond water and kill the fish. Sorry for your loss and know you have learned your mistakes and helped others to not make the same mistake.