Fountains and Aeration

Fountains and aeration systems are one of the easiest ways to enhance your pond’s health and aesthetic appeal. Whether you are looking for a display fountain to add a high-value visual effect to your pond, a surface aerator to make your pond healthier and more robust, or even a combination of the two in the form of an aerating fountain, we have a wide variety of fountains and aeration systems to choose from in order to meet your unique goals for the lake.

There is no easier way to enhance the aesthetic appeal of your lake or pond than the addition of a decorative fountain. These features come with a large selection of nozzles, allowing you to implement the feature that best aligns with your dreams for a picture-perfect lake, a serene destination for you and your family. Our fountains come in a range of sizes, to best fit your needs, regardless of your lake’s size

In addition, we offer light kits for our fountain offerings, enhancing the nighttime appeal of your water feature. With a variety of colors to choose from, you can customize your fountain’s display colors to match whatever atmosphere you dream of!

These options are perfect for the landowners looking to develop their pond into an aesthetic feature on their property, enhancing the appeal of their land for guests and family.

These devices chop up surface water, directly adding oxygen by increasing the amount of surface area contact between the water and the atmosphere. They can mix water several feet deep and create oxygen rich environments that can act as refuges for fish populations.

Much like an insurance policy for your pond, a surface aerator is the easiest way to make sure that even during stressful summer weather, the oxygen in your pond is sufficient to sustain your fish populations. Likewise, these features can defend your valuable fish against oxygen crashes due to heavy rain or sudden temperature changes. One of the most common causes of sudden fish kills is oxygen crashes due to lake turnover. These events can be incredibly costly, decimating fish populations that took years to grow and establish.

A reliable and well-placed surface aeration system is a simple and cost-effective solution to prevent these catastrophic events and maintain the health of your fish populations, providing an oxygenated refuge for your fish.

These systems come in a range of sizing options to benefit any size pond, from a half-acre fishing pond to a multi-acre lake. Many owners enjoy the subtle display that these fountains create, and partnered by a customizable light kit, can add an enjoyable aesthetic feature alongside the benefits for your pond’s health.

For those looking for the best of both worlds, a single unit that can provide the visual display of a fountain, with the aerating benefits of a surface aerator, an aerating fountain is often the solution.

These units utilize a “v” shaped display which allows more water droplets to come into contact with the atmosphere, thus helping improve oxygen levels while providing an decorative display.
They may not oxygenate water as well as a surface aerator, but especially in smaller ponds, can provide the same safe-haven benefits of a surface aerator alongside a stunning aesthetic display for lakes designed both as a great fishery, and a beautiful landscape feature. When paired with a light kit, these features can provide subtle, yet beautiful displays across a nighttime lake, enhancing the dreamlike appeal of your serene water body.

During warmer parts of the year, pond will develop distinct layers in a process called stratification. In this process, warm oxygen rich water forms in the upper section of the water column, while cooler, more dense, poorly oxygenated water forms in the lower section of the water column. Without mixing of the water column, this bottom layer becomes devoid of oxygen and can no longer be utilized by fish.

A bottom diffused aeration system pumps air through a membrane, creating a bubble column that mixes the water in the pond, effectively removing the stratified layers. This allows for a uniform distribution of oxygen throughout the water column, opening up much more usable water for your fish, plankton, and helpful bacteria.
The removal of this stratification layer allows:

• Fish populations to utilize the entire water column and deeper habitat, opening up the water body to support larger, more robust fish populations
• Increase aerobic bacteria communities that break down organics at the lake bottom thus reducing nutrient loading back into the water column helping prevent noxious algae infestations
• Oxygen distribution across the entire water column, reducing the risk of large-scale oxygen crashes, especially due to destratification, as the pond is already destratified

These aeration systems do not add oxygen to the water but instead, mix the oxygenated water present within the lake so that oxygen can distribute throughout the entire water column more effectively. For this reason, these systems are most effective when combined with a surface aerator that directly adds water to the lake. These two systems together provide a robust oxygenated environment for your fish, improving both the health of the lake and that of the fish populations.

Research is constantly being conducted to solve one of the largest questions in the fisheries industry: What is the best way to add oxygen to my lake? And although surface aerators are fantastic at boosting the oxygen levels in your pond and preventing dangerous oxygen fluctuations, they cannot be called perfect solutions.
Surface aeration systems will only oxygenate the top layer of water, often leaving the cooler, more dense water without oxygen and therefore unusable by fish, and prone to organic sediment buildup. Although you can install bottom diffused aeration systems to help destratify your pond and increase the oxygen levels present at the bottom, these systems are still far from perfect, and often must be run continuously, especially in the case of bottom diffused aeration.

With recent advances in technology, OST systems can provide oxygen enhancement benefits not before seen with existing technology. These systems introduce oxygen directly into the water below the thermocline, maintaining stratification while enhancing water quality at the bottom of the pond.

An OST system consists of both an in-the-water pumping assembly as well as an onshore oxygen generator. When the system switches ON, oxygen is mixed with water within the system and distributed by the pump assembly along the sediment layer of the lake. This creates a “blanket” of oxygen rich water over the sediment layer, promoting improved decomposition of sediment and allowing oxygen to disperse throughout the water column from below.

The system will constantly monitor oxygen levels and switch OFF when oxygen reaches 20mg/L of dissolved oxygen. Likewise, the system will switch ON again when it detects oxygen levels lower than 15mg/L. This ON and OFF cycle enhances efficiency of the system while ensuring extraordinary oxygen saturation throughout the pond. Similarly, the system can ensure oxygen demand is met, without the risk of being unable to keep up with oxygen demand that is sometimes experienced with traditional aeration systems.

Sediment is not only problematic for the depth of your pond, but is often the root cause of a host of water quality issues from low dissolved oxygen levels to high levels of released nutrients that can lead to harmful algae blooms (HABs). When organic sediments accumulate at the bottom of the pond, they often consume large amounts of available oxygen, leading to anoxic, and even toxic conditions at the lake bottom. Currently, these issues are treated with bottom diffused aeration, which often struggles to effectively manage the high oxygen demand from decomposing sediment.

OST disperses oxygenated water over the sediment layer, directly adding oxygen to the decaying material. This additional oxygen at the sediment layer provides:

• Reduced Buildup: Sediment is decomposed effectively, improving pond depth and reducing excessive accumulation in the future.
• Improved Aesthetics: Reduction of organic sediment can help improve pond appearance by reducing algal blooms and can reduce foul odor caused by anoxic decomposition.
• Reduced Oxygen Demand: As this organic muck is broken down, the oxygen demand in this layer is reduced, improving oxygen availability throughout the pond.