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Following the large amount of rain the past few days I started to see small 1" to 2" BG in the hundreds floating yesterday afternoon. I went back in the evening to scoop out what I could. Had 2 LMB and a few adult BG. I put a bilge pump circulating water at one end this morning. After doing some searching here I know I need aeration but I won't get electricity till the fall. Pond is .5 acres and 2 yrs old in southeast Louisiana. Has CNBG and LMB
Should I keep the battery bilge going and keep dipping the dead or let nature run its course?
Thanks for the advice
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From my understanding you don't want to aerate too much too soon either. That can have consequences. I think you should do an hour one day and each day double the time till you reach the max hours you want to run it. They are sum feeds on here that you can find that can give you better answers than me. I live in Louisiana not too far from you and I have been blessed to not have any low oxygen problems so I am not well educated on the matter. But I do know you shouldn't aerate too much initially. Is the pump circulating and aerating or only circulating?
Last edited by cardell; 08/20/12 03:59 PM.
3rd acre fertilized fed and aerated
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Following the large amount of rain the past few days I started to see small 1" to 2" BG in the hundreds floating yesterday afternoon. I went back in the evening to scoop out what I could. Had 2 LMB and a few adult BG. I put a bilge pump circulating water at one end this morning. After doing some searching here I know I need aeration but I won't get electricity till the fall. Pond is .5 acres and 2 yrs old in southeast Louisiana. Has CNBG and LMB
Should I keep the battery bilge going and keep dipping the dead or let nature run its course?
Thanks for the advice Was there a large amount of run-off into the pond? Smaller fish are more fragile, and could go belly up if water conditions change rapidly. As for aeration, start 15 minutes/day, doubling the time every day. If at the end of the run cycle, you smell a sulphur smell, leave it run for the same length of time the next few days and take another whiff. With the pond only 2 years old, I doubt that you'll have a problem with the start-up procedure. You shouldn't have that much organic build up on the pond bottom.
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I just had a small boat bilge pump circulating water at the surface. Based on this I will cut it off
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There was a good bit of runoff. Level increased over a foot. This has happened in the past but 1st time I saw dead fish. Pulled a few more bass out today
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pump I attached a picture of the pump i rigged to get some water moving but turned off based on feedback. I do not have aeration from the bottom since no electricity. I will install a system next year when i build and move to the property. I had planned on running the pump for a few days on battery power since its only splashing water on the surface. Eric
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If it was low DO, then I think you would have seen more of the larger fish belly up. I think a large amount of runoff, hitting the shallows where more of the smaller fish congregated changed the water chemistry or pH and caused the fish kill. Like I said, the smaller fish are more sensitive to changes, and probably didn't know enough to swim away from the shallows where they'd more 'n likely be eaten anyway.
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