No, because he's an idiot that just stole this from another RU-vidr and presented it to you like he knew what he was talking about. Hopefully you're not subscribed to him...
I'd love to here more about this. I've seen a south African use this method to clear up ponds and swales, and I think he used a lot more then the ratio your starting with. A stable aquatic ecosystem is an amazing thing to achieve. You can also consider adding micronized humates to the water to bind free nitrogen and lower algae growth without resorting to dyes, or meet somewhere in the middle with a little of both.
I did a little more digging on this and looks like I’ll have to pick up 5-6 more bags of the gypsum to be effective but so far there is a small change in the clarity. I will look into the micronized humates, haven’t heard of those. If I don’t have to dye that would be great but not totally against it since it’s just food coloring
@@AgainstTheGrainDiet Cool. And just to be clear by humics I meant Humic acid usually extracted from soft brown coal (Leonardite) or high quality compost. Might help your research to know those terms.
When I was a young man, I went to a pond site and they were digging out the dam to dry drain it. It was full of uncountable tiny catfish. They kept it roiled up. The scavengers had a field day no doubt. Have you ever walked a pond area with a umbrella during a good rain to see the run off patterns? While my entire watershed is in tight grass with some orchard areas, I still see sediment flowing in.
It's not the gypsum. It's what's in the gypsum. Calcium alone will do this. Gypsum only has 19% calcium generally. Do a test with a 5 gallon bucket of gypsum vs pure calcium Ad the same amount of volume and you should see the difference within an hour or sooner.
LOVE THIS! Fix n feed is in my town, and there is only 3 locations so you have to be close to me... this will help so much with my little pond! Thanks!
Before you get to far down the rabbit hole, is there a kayak or John boat you have or could borrow to map the depth of the pond? Or do you already know the depth? If the pond isn’t 10-12’ deep, would you have it cleaned out before clearing it up? Growing up in West Texas our stock ponds that were that cloudy usually were only 5-7 ft deep.
I was looking for an update, as our tiny pond also looks like this. We added a bit of calcium today (we had some laying around for our lawn 😂) so I can't wait to see what happens in the next few days. Did the gypsum work for your pond?
@@jeffcasey6084 Not at all.. eventually I put in a load of plants, and the pond was clear within 3 weeks :) I chose plants that the horses can eat so they don't grow out of control. It looks amazing and the water is SUPER clear!
So where is the next video to show how the pond looks say a week later??? I subscribed to your channel thinking I could find the next video to finish this project but I found nothing. Help me out here, I’m trying to fix my muddy pond and need help. Did you put up a second video to this one?
@@AgainstTheGrainDiet We had some of that obnoxious long stranded algae find its way into our pond. It got so bad in 1 yr, I could rake it out in piles. I used the blue dye, and it hasn't been back, and I'm not letting up either. Have to wait til after the spring rains tho, or you flush your dye out the spillway.
Any update on how this worked for your pond? I'm trying to find info to fix turbidity in my pond, and find a ton of before videos, but no after videos.
@AgainstTheGrainFarm thanks for the reply! Yep... I've been going down the rabbit hole, and it looks like I'm going to need a supplier that sells by the ton. If you get yours worked out, I'd love to see a before and after video.
What area are you in? My wife and I just moved onto 5 acres outside Shepherd, we have two ponds that probably both equal about this size we are needing to clean up as well.
Greg Judy always fences off the pond, maybe puts a skirt in if he wants them to use it, but with a fence so stay on the skirt. I think you may want to put some old hay on the shoreline, rebuild it a little but I am sure there are local guys with a backhoe to do a little cleaning, maybe same time as doing some work clearing trees or whatever. Expensive, but that water is worth a lot for your livestock.
Wow your explanation about the electric charge is completely off. The clay particles have a charge and they repel each other, like two magnets of the same charge. It has nothing to do with a charge of the water. The gypsum doesn't decrease ph at all. And thats not NEAR enough gypsum to clear any size pond. So much bad info in this video.
Correct. I was looking for a good video on a poor-man's way to apply the gypsum (not using pumps and blenders), and found this video that is wholly off the mark. Turbid ponds require between 1/2 and 1 TON of gypsum per acre-foot of water. Depending on the depth, that pond would require 3-6 tons of gypsum, or 150-300 of those 40lb bags. It would have been nice if he actually cleared the pond before posting this video.
