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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Animal Care.

In this Badge Bit you will be adding an aeration strategy to a trout pond.



Here are some articles on it:
 - Aeration in Aquaculture
 - Dissolved Oxygen Water Properties
 - Oxygenate a Pond without Electricity
 - Aeration Methods
 - Winter Aeration Why and How
 - Water Flowforms

Here are some related threads:
 - Advice on Natural Fish Pond
 - Building a pond, tips on aeration
 - Sepp Holzer on Ponds and Wind
 - Flowforms, ever use them?
 - Mollison on Trompes











To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - you must add an aeration strategy to a trout pond

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must:
 - describe roughly what the aeration method you will be adding is and how it works
 - post a picture of of the trout pond before the aeration strategy is added
 - post a picture of the trout pond after the aeration strategy is added
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This pond is about 1/3 to 1/2 of an acre and totally surrounded by trees with only one wet weather stream that feeds into it.  As such, it gets very little natural aeration from the wind or water.  

To make matters worse, there are loads of leaves that collect here and decay, releasing nutrients into the water and consuming dissolved oxygen.  Adding this bubbler is pretty crucial during the summer months.

I've started planting some plants down there to see what will last (deer already got the lily!) but it's looking like I'll need to seed it with some significant underwater plants if I want to cut down on the nutrients to outcompete the duckweed.

Here's the photos of me installing the solar powered aerator.
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Solar Bracket Mounted
Solar Bracket Mounted
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100W panel inserted
100W panel inserted
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DC to AC converter and pump
DC to AC converter and pump
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Before
Before
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After
After
Staff note (gir bot) :

Mike Haasl approved this submission.

 
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