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I have a new pond that first filled in March of this year. Last fall I installed a Vertex system. Last Friday the water temps were as follows:
Surface 74 degrees 4 foot 67 degrees 11 foot 57 degrees
Sunday evening was the first night the System ran (from 8 PM to 6 AM, so last night was the third night. The water temps this morning were:
Surface 71 degrees 4 foot 70 degrees 11 foot 70 degrees
I have 2 diffusers, one at the bottom, about 11' deep and the other in about 5' of water. The pond is 0.6 acres with an average depth of 5.5'. Needless to say I am very happy.
Last summer there were only fatheads in the pond but I believe with the drought and extreme heat that I would have had a fish kill had other fish been stocked. I stocked with BG, RES, and LMB in October and I believe that they will happily survive the summer. Now to get the clay to settle out!
Gerry
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Nice you seem to have less deep water than I. My surface water temp went from 72 to 58 in the 6 days it took me to start it up. I am very lucky to have the heaviest clay anyone could ask for. We could get away with very steep banks then 4-1 on the shore for 10 feet.
It never really hit me till I read it over and over on this site the benefits of aeration. Makes me wonder if I start really pushing the biomass of the pond if I should look into a back up pump or at least a rebuild kit to have on hand.
I should get a temp prob. Been telling my self this for years now for fishing.
Cheers Don.
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Don,
A backup pump or kit if you can afford it would be a GREAT idea. Unless you can get one rather quick.
As your fish grow and your fish have fish some will survive unless you are taking fish out on a consistant basis your biomass is going to grow weather you like it or not. 3 or 4 days without a pump could be costly if it's the wrong time of year!
RC
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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by H20fwler - 05/06/24 04:29 AM
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