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Re: How small can a trout pond be? fishNY4fun #418768 07/17/15 09:11 PM
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RichMN R Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 5 Northern MN	My 54x54 pond is handling the trout fine as of now, the trout weight about 4-6oz now x 600 trout, the ammonia is staying at 0 and on warm days the temps creep up to 68 degrees. Water temp is mainly around 64, I run about 4k gallons of well water a day to help with evaporation. ph is also staying at 7.8-8.0. The fish seem very active and healthy

Re: How small can a trout pond be? fishNY4fun #418773 07/17/15 10:23 PM
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Cecil Baird1 Hall of Fame Lunker Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 20,043 Likes: 1 Northeastern Indiana	Rich, What is the purpose of the sand filter? If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.

Re: How small can a trout pond be? fishNY4fun #419032 07/20/15 10:02 PM
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RichMN R Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 5 Northern MN	its to filter out any particles in the water and a place for the bacteria to grow to eat the ammonia. Last edited by RichMN; 07/20/15 10:03 PM.

Re: How small can a trout pond be? RichMN #419040 07/20/15 11:32 PM
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Cecil Baird1 Hall of Fame Lunker Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 20,043 Likes: 1 Northeastern Indiana	Originally Posted By: RichMN its to filter out any particles in the water and a place for the bacteria to grow to eat the ammonia. That's what I figured but didn't think you would need that in an earthen pond that size if your fish load isn't too high. Oh wait I see in your first post it's lined. That will reduce nitrification. Doesn't your sand filter clog rapidly? Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 07/21/15 01:07 AM. If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.

Re: How small can a trout pond be? fishNY4fun #419068 07/21/15 08:50 AM
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RichMN R Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 5 Northern MN	so far I only cleaned it once, I have a woven poly sunshade over 3/4 of the pond so not a lot of stuff other than fish waste is in water. And from what I researched the bacteria should eat most of that.