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Do you need to have a spring fed pond to support a healthy fish population? or will a run off only pond stay healthy enough for fish to live?
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Run off pond can work fine if the soil and the watershed are right. Best springs are those that feed into pond from above normal water level, otherwise the flow could reverse.
7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160
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Although it might help, it is definitely not required. Most of the ponds around here are not spring fed and many of them have a healthy fish population. IMO it is more dependent on pH management, population control, and a healthy food chain.
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It really depends on the pond, but a pond with sufficient depth, correctly sized watershed and correct fish #s shouldn't need it.
Last edited by BrianL; 09/06/18 01:01 PM.
1.8 acre pond with CNBG, RES, HSB, and LMB
Trophy Hunter feeder.
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Actually, very few ponds are spring fed.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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I think it was the Missouri Pond Handbook, I read that a spring could be bad. Something to do with the cold water could hurt spawning.
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mine is both spring and stream fed - there are two surface springs feeding my pond, 1 always flowing creek, 2 mostly dry creeks, and the outlet of an upper pond
Mat Peirce
1.25 acre southeast Iowa pond
LMB, BG, YP, WE, HSB, RES, BCP
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