Aquacide Blog — Aquacide Pellets

A customer recently contacted us regarding muck reduction. Below is the question and our response. Question: All I have is a question. We live on a bayou of Hamlin Lake in Ludington, Michigan, about a 5,000 acre lake. We tend to get the sediment from a north wind often, bringing muck to our waterfront. About 4-5 years ago I ordered and attempted to rid our area of the muck, or at least clear it our somewhat, to no avail. The previous owner had used the waterfront as a dumping place for his leaves. The muck is from 3 inches to 3...

A customer recently contacted us regarding weeds. Below is the question and our response. Question: I have purchased a 10 lb. bag of Aquacide Pellets. How do I apply this in the lake? Throw it? Take a boat out? How? LS, Andover, MN Answer: First of all, thank you for your recent purchase of Aquacide Pellets. We appreciate your business! Aquacide Pellets are the size of small marbles and too large for mechanical spreaders. Have no fear! Simply take a handful of Aquacide Pellets at a time and throw them into your lake using a fanning motion, similar to hand spreading grass...

Preventing Lake Weed Problems Southern Ponds & Wildlife Vol. 3 #1 (Winter 2004) Don C. Keller   Every spring during the months of April and May, I get hundreds of calls from pond owners who seem to be overwhelmed with vegetation problems.  They usually state that they began fertilizing in March and had difficulty establishing a desirable plankton bloom (green color).  What they fail to say is that there was some vegetation in the pond when they began fertilizing.  The reason they couldn’t get a bloom was because the vegetation was sucking up the fertilizer. All vegetation responds to fertilizer,...

Water Plantain (alisma) is a perennial herb, native to Eurasia and North Africa, now present world-wide. Water Plantain grows in shallow marshy soil along the shoreline.  It has stiff lance-shaped leaves 5-8” long that stand above the water surface.  Emersed leaves have prominent parallel veins.  Submersed leaves are smaller and ribbon-like with less defined veins.  Water Plantain has small white 3-petaled flowers which whorl around a delicate stalk that open in the morning from June through August. Water Plantain reproduces from seed and division of corms (a fleshy bulb-like underground stem). Water Plantain is a food source for most waterfowl...