I have a small temporary holding pond of 25 by 30 feet by 7 feet deep that I will be putting in about 300 small 3 to 4 inch feed trained crappies on May 2nd. However, it does seep more than I would like even though it appears to have a thick clay base. (I believe it has a spring seep in the bottom as it can never be completely emptied, and apparently it reverses and removes water when it is under pressure of a full pond of water.)

I have decided to dump in some bags of bentonite to see if that will solve the problem. Anyone know if two weeks would be long enough of a time to get the bentonite to settle to the bottom? If not, I guess I could add some buffered alum. I would rather have the bentonite settled by the time I put the fish in.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.