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Pond Aerator

Looking for the right pond aerator or air diffuser?  That's really a very good decision because having the right amount of air infused in your pond water can mean the difference between healthy fish or sickly fish. Additionally, aerators have many benefits that we will try to explain for you 

So, let's begin by taking a look at what a pond aerator does and what types are available.

Let's say that you have too much algae within your pond-or perhaps you have unpleasant pond smells wafting into your home and the mosquitos are overpowering your yard-and the answer you keep running into time and time again in your findings is something called air diffussion better known as pond aeration. But what's air diffussion?  Exactly what does it do for your pond?  How does one aerate a pond? They are all good questions, the solutions to which escape most pond owners.

So as to assist the normal pond owner understand aeration better, we've come up with this short program:

What is Pond Aeration and What Does a Pond Aerator Do?

Pond oygenation is a procedure with which air is added to water, essentially elevating the degree of dissolved oxygen. This dissolved oxygen is what fish use to breathe, and what other microorganisms use to keep your pond clean.

A couple of things are important within this process: aeration efficiency and Mixing & Oygenation. High efficiency means that you're imparting the best water/air ratio at the smallest energy cost (basically obtaining the most value for your money), plus the mixing action make certain that this highly oxygenated water is spread throughout your entire pond.

What Does Aeration Do For My Pond?

Pond aeration is integral to maintaining aesthetics and aquatic health of the pond. The mixing of the water and oxygen along with Aerating actions perform four key roles:

1. Provide fish the optimal environmental habitat with a pond aerator by ensuring that they have ample oxygen through the entire pond to breathe. Fish health is usually improved from the mixing action, because this destratifies the water column and avoids pond turnover (a semi-annual event that sometimes causes the death of all of the fish!)

2. Get rid of pond odors: by facilitating oxygen breathing, or aerobic, bacteria growth. When microorganisms disintegrate nutrients without oxygen, they release horrible pond odors!  This can be VERY unpleasant. Aerobic microorganisms actually eliminate pond odors before they reach the surface, keeping your pond smelling fresh.

3. Reduce algae and clarify water by providing oxygen for beneficial bacteria to breathe-when these bacteria thrive, they rapidly consume the nutrient material within your pond that will otherwise fuel algae blooms and cloudy water.Algae can be reduced through mixing. The Mixing action both creates a turbulence that disrupts the algae habitat and circulates oxygen throughout the entire water column, allowing the safe bacteria to out compete algae for food within the pond.
 
4. Limit mosquito breeding by mixing up the stagnant water they thrive in. In addition, the oxygenating abilities of excellent aerators expand the fish habitat, allowing them to travel into shallow water and consume the undesirable mosquito larvae.

What Types of Pond Aerators Are Available?

On-Surface Aerators (Fountains): Pond Fountains are meant to aerate by launching water into the air. Although this may look great, it happens to be relatively poor at adding oxygen within the water and costs a lot of of greenbacks in electricity costs.  Also,fountains aren't able to adequately mix the deeper pond water. Between its poor aerating ability, its inefficient operation, and sub-standard mixing, fountains are a bad aeration choice.

Surface Aerators: Surface aerators work in a fashion just like those of fountains, with the exception of they don't really offer a visually appealing spray pattern. Therefore, not only the common surface aerator a poor and inefficient aerator-it also looks unappealing!

Subsurface Aerators/Traditional Diffused Aerator: Standard diffused aerators sit at the bottom of the pond, and consequently are powered by the compressor onshore.They release fine (tiny) bubbles at the bottom of one's pond, which is definitely fantastic at adding oxygen within your pond, but lacks in mixing. This is because the microbubbles rise too slowly to make a sufficient blending action.

Windmill Diffused Aerator: Windmill aeration works the same as standard diffused oygenation/aeration apart from one par and that is that it uses a windmill rather than a compressor to push air. Not only is the performance of this equipment unpredictable with the inconsistency of the wind, in addition, it produces minimal quantities of air (not nearly enough to oxygenate all of your pond!).

Now that you know what aeration is, what it does and the types of aerators available, you should now know enough to make an educated decision that will help you properly maintain your pond and provide you with many enjoyable hours of beauty and relaxation.