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How deep will it be and what are you going to stock? It is beautiful. Congrats.!!


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thank you! it will be 30ft roughly in the deepest part, and I plan on stocking Fat head minnows, golden shinners, blue gill, shell cracker, a few channel cats and the main fish im wanting to grow Large mouth bass. I cant wait to get home and start setting up stucture. currently stuck over in Africa while the pond is being dug

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Man 30 Ft is gona be nice, not many ponds in FL are that deep.
You going to use a bottom difuser aeration to keep the bottom oxygenated?

perhaps some of the experts can chim in but its seems Threadfin Shad would be an easily sourced aditional forage fish to stock and the Bass would love them.... Crayfish and fresh water grass shimp would add to a well balanced forage base too. I have loads of them and am willing to share , but they are pretty easily sourced locally too.

the FHM are great for jump starting the system but typically are gonna disapear only leaving the CNBG and the GSH.


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So kinda hard to tell from pics I guess is it more shaped like a channel/creek? It's 3 times as long as it is wide so I am assuming it is like what we would call an oxbow here... not so wide but long? Would love to see a pic from above! Looks pretty cool though congrats!

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yea was planning on adding crawfish, and yes a bottom aerator to keep the water circulated. RC51 they still have a lil bit wider to go but yes longer than it is wide, the are digging it so deep because they want as much hard pan as they can get


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Before they finish, have them taper the shoreline 4:1 out to a few feet of water depth, then they can go 3:1 out to 6'-8' depth, then 2:1 if the soil will hold that slope. If it's sandy soil, it usually won't stay in place if the slope is steeper than 3:1.

Have the dirt above the waterline 4:1 or less steep to make getting to the water easier.


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Just curious , what is the "hardpan" and what might it be used for?


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Bobby its that red to almost black looking dirt we have here in North FL, when it compacts its hard as a rock, they use it for driveways and added foundations for homes if you look in the pics its the really dark dirt and what looks like rocks


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What you guys down in Florida call a pond, in New Mexico, we'd call a lake. Holy Cow! Amazing. It just fills in from rain and it is that clear? Incredible.


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Well BBoss I have small springs that fill it up too


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Got my folks to take some pics of the pond while im gone here are the lastest pics of the pond. the length is done but they have a lil wider to go, if you look in some of the pics you will see a pine tree with orange tape on it or in the first piture its by the yellow loader, that is the goal width of the pond. Look forward to hearing you questions and comments!! enjoy the photos!









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If the pond is a groundwater pond, and the water level will fluctuate a couple of feet, taper the banks to a more gradual slope to allow walking down and mowing down to the water's edge as it recedes.


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+1 To add to what Esshup stated, my experience is that gradual slope and water level change inherent with a water table pond can work to your advantage. When spring spawn time comes around and the spring rains raise the level, that vegetation on those gently sloping banks gets submerged. Prime habitat for plankton and new spawn.

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The banks are going to be sloped more, the are just doing the general digging out right now, once they get all the dirt they want out they are going to go around it with a dozer for the finish work and sloping of the bank so good there :-)


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any one know a good and cheap grass seed to put around a new pond like mine?


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There's a science to getting grass to take. You have to keep the seed moist, and plant no deeper than 1/8" or so. Renting a grass drill is the best way to do it, but before you have the seed down get your sprinkling system dialed in. Once the grass starts to germinate, every time it dries out I was told that you lose 50% of it.

Rye seed is cheap and good. I would find the best grass seed for your area of the country, seed at the recommended rate, and add 50%-75% of the recommended seeding rate of Rye grass too. Rye will pop up in a few days if conditions are right, then it will help keep moisture in the soil for the other grass seeds.


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Marvelous! Just amazing work, I really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing.

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We had amazing success with throwing down fescue and winter wheat, and then covering with straw. We have very thick fescue all around the pond, including the dam.
I never watered it, but I did fertilize. I reseeded again the next spring.
The winter wheat came up strong, and attracted turkeys all summer.
The toughest part was spreading the straw over all the seed, but it made the difference. Where we did not put straw, we had very little grass.

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REally like the idea of putting straw on top of the seeding.

We found that if you have a way to spread the seed yon can then just drag a chain with a 4 wheeler with a spreader bar. Just dragging the chain was enough to get the seed covered and take really well.


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I seed then dust over it with peat moss and mist it down well, so it's saturated, but not washed off. The surface may look dry afterwards... But underneath where the seeds are stays moist. I'll bet you could grow grass on asphalt like this. Had a friend get a big landscaping project done a few years ago. The contractor said there was no sense in trying to establish seed until fall, once that hot dry summer weather was gone. He came back a couple weeks later to finish a wall and was amazed to see the new lawn well established with almost no rain in that time. Adding rye is great too. It establishes VERY quickly, the roots help hold everything together until the grass grows and it helps a lot by shading everything, really helps keep the ground from drying out.

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Setter is the green pipe part of a siphon system for the pond?

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Setter is the green pipe part of a siphon system for the pond?


It's just an overflow pipe. In retrospect, I wish I'd never put it in. I have spillways on both ends of the dam, but the guy from the government thought I needed a pipe also.
I didn't know about the true siphon systems when we put it in. It just angles down from front to back. It collects water before the grass spillways do. I've never had water go over the grass spillways and really only had it coming out of the pipe a few times.
We put seep collars on it, but it has leaked along side the pipe when the pipe was almost under. Not a good situation. I've packed bentonite around the pipe entrance. I'll know if it works pretty soon. We had rain yesterday, and are supposed to get rain the next three days. I'll know Sunday if it's leaking. Pain in the backside to do a proper repair. Expensive too.
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Appreciate the response
also appreciate your insite on the drain pipe issues

I have just finished excavating our pond and now working towards installing a siphone system.
Would post some pics but not sure how too from an android phone

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Looks good. I can tell by the pictures you hired someone that knows what they are doing! It's a lot more expensive when you hire someone that doesn't. haha. This is a tough time of year to dig ponds. Where about are you located?



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K im in the very North east corner of FL im only a 15 min to GA. They have been diggin since May so almost a year now, digging isn`t the problem though, finding folks to buy the dirt to get it off the land is! thats why it is taking them so long. Only takes them like 3 days to dig and put up the dirt, takes them forever to haul it out!


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