Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Best Way to Kill Unwanted Fish

I have hydrated lime and I was going to use it but wanted professional advice first. Thanks Cecil.

Pond frog, we have to dam the inflow at the head of the pond to work on the bottom at the dam. Therefore you have a small pond within the big pond that you can breach when you are ready for it to fill or simply allow the water to overflow the little containment dam which is what I will do. Thats how you can have a residual population of fish after you have drained a pond. Ponds are never bone dry over the entire bottom surface at the same time.

I want a fresh start with no bullheads so I am going to kill everything that we didn't remove. If you ever read any of my earlier posts I was supplied bullheads and not CC when I stocked the pond new in '05. The hatchery says there is no way they mistook BB for CC but when it was drained there were hundreds of BB and zero CC. Explain that please.