What’s swimming in your stock water?
Learn to identify aquatic insects to determine if your livestock’s water sources are healthy and provide the nutrition they need.
Archive Tag: water quality
Adequate Plant Cover Is Necessary for Good Water Quality
Good plant cover helps stabilize the soil and prevent soil from polluting water.
Fish Pond Water Quality: As Simple as Chemistry 101
Water quality is one of the most overlooked aspects of pond management – until it affects fish production.
A Secchi Disk is Used to Measure Water Clarity
Appropriate water quality is fundamentally important for fish and aquatic plants, and muddy water limits production of both. Ideal clarity for largemouth bass and bluegill production in ponds without substantial vegetation is 12- to 30-inch visibility, with primarily phytoplankton turbidity. Turbidity is cloudiness caused by suspended or dissolved material. Sport fish also perform well in clearer water when substantial aquatic vegetation is present. Ideal clarity for aquatic plant production is generally greater than 36-inch visibility.