Solar Ponds Keep The Water Clean And Aerated For Free

As a way to maintain adequate fish habitat throughout the winter months, the use of solar ponds is continuing to become more popular. Originally designed to reduce the salinity in the water near towns on coast lines, they are now used to improve the aeration during the winter months as well as provide continuous pumping action to keep water pumps performing without the need to have a source of electric near the pond.

Larger ponds may soon accumulate algae on the surface. This can quickly overtake the surface of any pond or small lake and reducing the amount of sun and oxygen available for the aquatic life present. With solar ponds, pumps operate by solar power and also charged batteries. The batteries will automatically take over once the sun drops to keep the pumps going through the night. Come morning, the solar power takes over again to run the pumps and charge the batteries ready for the next night.

This greatly reduces the amount of algae growing in the water because pumping the air into the water will add precious oxygen for the fish, plants and other underwater life.

Many lakes will lose oxygen at their very bottom, as will some farm and deep family ponds, reducing the amount of life that can survive in deeper waters. With solar ponds incorporating water pumps near the bottom of the body of water, air is pumped into the water, restoring the oxygen so that deep loving life can survive.

This also helps to keep a pond clean because with air in the bottom, aerobic bacteria will quickly consume any dead organisms that sink to the bottom of the pond, helping to keep the water clean and stopping waste from floating to the surface.

How To Restore Life To Dying Bodies Of Water

As ponds start to get older, the aging process reduces its ability to fight off the attack by algae and aeration of solar ponds can help breath new life into fast degrading ponds and even large lakes. It can also reduce the number of fish lost all year long as well as help promote aquatic plant growth which is needed as the major food source for fish. Also, all this extra air being pumped into the pond will see fish grow to a larger size.

Water will be cleaner and clearer and will keep the solar ponds open throughout the year for the fish and other wildlife that depends on the water as a source of life. It is the ammonia, phosphates and nitrites that accumulates in ponds and causes the stagnant appearance and smell. If there is constant aeration, it will reduce that look and smell drastically.

Organic pollutants are attracted to still ponds which stifles fish growth, their reproduction and the decreases the number of fish the size of the pond can support. Aeration done with the help of solar ponds will reduce the pollutants, both organic and inorganic, making the pond much more hospitable to fish and other welcome wildlife.