Pond & Tank Management: water quality and feeding

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I'm learning "Pond & Tank Management: water quality and feeding" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "The pond as a living system".

What the lesson teaches:
- Before this course: Fish Farming (Aquaculture) Business Basics (course 2.18). You already know the main systems, the water basics, feed conversion ratio (FCR), survival rate and the first cost sums. This course teaches how to manage a pond or tank day by day.
- Where oxygen comes from and where it goes. Water plants and algae add oxygen in daylight by photosynthesis. At night they stop adding and use oxygen. Fish, algae and the germs that break down waste all use oxygen all the time. Warm water holds less oxygen than cool water.
- The nitrogen path (standard aquaculture science). Fish eat protein feed and give off ammonia. Helpful bacteria change ammonia into nitrite, and other bacteria change nitrite into nitrate. Ammonia and nitrite are the harmful ones. Overfeeding and overcrowding push more ammonia into the water.
- Daily swing. In fertilised, crowded ponds, oxygen is highest in the late afternoon and lowest just before dawn. For example, Mississippi State University Extension says nearly every pond with a lot of fish (they describe catfish ponds) falls below 2 mg/L at dawn in mid-summer.
- Tilapia (FAO): most species grow between 20 and 35 degrees C, with best growth around 28 to 30 degrees C. Feeding stops at about 11 to 15 degrees C, and deaths rise above 37 degrees C. Other species have other ranges: ask your fisheries office for yours.
- Biomass is the load. The total weight of fish in the water matters more than the number of fish. Fish get heavier every week, so a pond that is fine in week 2 can be at its limit in week 14.

The exercise I'm working on:
Draw your pond or tank as a day picture and a night picture. Mark the oxygen coming in and going out, and write what could build up in the water if you overfeed.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "The pond as a living system" from the course "Pond & Tank Management: water quality and feeding".

Here's what the lesson says:
A pond is like a busy bedroom at night: everyone breathes in the air, and the air slowly gets used up. Fish, tiny green water plants and tiny germs all breathe the oxygen in the water, so the more fish and food you add, the faster it runs out.

The activity:
Draw your pond or tank as a day picture and a night picture. Mark the oxygen coming in and going out, and write what could build up in the water if you overfeed.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.