Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding How often? How much?

How often does your feeder go off each day? How much do you feed each day?

When it warms up I shoot 2 five second shots for our 1 acre perch pond. The two shots are 10 minutes apart. When they can clean all that up I will add another shot. Been as high as 5 shots for 5 sec. If its not all cleaned up in 10 minutes I take one shot off. Slow ramp up in the spring and ramp down in the fall.

Cheers Don.

so you only essentially feed one time per day with multiple shots? Any downside to feeding once in am and once in pm ?

I've always been advised to feed my perch right before sunrise and right after sunset. They aren't as afraid of the sun as I thought they'd be, maybe they are starving. I'm feeding 10 seconds in the morning (after sunrise) and 10 seconds in the evening right before sunset. The food gets cleaned up in seconds. It's a continuous adjustment as the feed I get (Optima) seems a different size with every bag. It's difficult to change the settings on the feeder, but it's easy to change the timer. So I just adjust the amount of time the feeder runs. Hoping I am throwing out about the same amount of food.
My perch are not as large as some I see on this forum. I'm limited by my budget.
Maybe one of our more knowledgeable guys will jump in here with some advice. Although I put Dono in that group. Maybe I should be rethinking how I feed.

I feed 3 late morning,2 midday,and 4 late afternoon when everything is right. I feed up to 9 seconds per throw. I'm up to six 8 second throws so far this year.

With our perch we have never had much luck feeding in the AM. I don't know why the perch don't really want to feed then for us. Might be the wind I don't know.

Our perch are very sensitive to the light. If I feed even 30 minutes early the minnows get most of it at first. The sun has to be down and in that twilight part of the evening. They will still feed in the dark way betting then in the morning for our perch.

Other breads might be different.

Cheers Don.

By BG are ravenous, and eat most of the catfish pellets before many of the CC have a chance. What to do? Throw more pellets? I throw Optimal BG to them first, but they eat it and then go for the CC pellets I throw last. The CC are mostly two to 3.5 pounds, some bigger, not scared of the BG, but the BG are much quicker.

It wasn't a problem last year, but now the BG are much larger.