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Cecil:
Next time you're out this way bring your O2 meter. We can test the well water. The well screen is placed from 56' to 66' (extra screen was placed at the end of the well casing when I had the well drilled), and it's about 60 yds from the pond. The water table that we hit when renovating the pond started at 9' and continued down as far as we dug the pond.
I'm going to try and aerate the deepest part of the pond only during the coolest part of the night, hopefully that'll work. If not, then nothing is lost because they would have died anyway. I know a trout farmer that claims his spring water comes out of the ground aerated. Unless he has limestone caves below him, or his water originates in Lake Huron, (He's close to the Lake Huron shore) I have my doubts. However there are sink holes in his area that they've injected dye into, and the dye made it's way to Lake Huron.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Gotta try...I can't wait to see how you do, Scott. This is invaluable information for the forum - and a cool project period.
Aside: If one wants a DO meter they had better be willing to spend $600 on the YSI, correct? Man, that's STEEP. You can get them in the mid 200 range now.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Reliable brands? Does that matter? I was under the assumption YSI or nothing, for some reason. Any thoughts there Cecil?
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Started this one up because my ice went out today. This is two weeks earlier than normal. I'm glad for that especially since I also found about 25 floaters. I would say half of them were 1.5 lb fish. I'm bummed. Most I ever had before was 8 floaters.
Gotta get back to fishin!
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Go'in up to the pond tomorrow and I'll bet there's still some ice on the pond but probably not for long. Time to hook up the electric fence so the Otter's can dance. 
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Just make sure that they're not in the pond when you turn it on!!
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Wow. We went from freezing and ice, to 80+ degree weather in just a few days.
Because of Easter, I came home tonight from Ye Olde Folks Home. As I drove in our nearly half-mile long driveway, the sound of the Virginia peepers over-powered my radio, even with my truck windows rolled-up.
What a beautiful sound.
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We have frogs called Spring Peepers, they do the same thing, you can't here yourself think. It's cool, it's spring. However, I do not have a single frog around my fish pond, the fish eat them all! I think of it as conversion of frogs and bugs to my dinner table.
Gotta get back to fishin!
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Started this one up because my ice went out today. This is two weeks earlier than normal. I'm glad for that especially since I also found about 25 floaters. I would say half of them were 1.5 lb fish. I'm bummed. Most I ever had before was 8 floaters. What species?
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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