Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? Sediment pond

esshup, thanks, I have used gsh for fishing but have never raised any and I am still not sure I can in a sediment pond that might get a lot of colloidal stuff during a nice rain event. But thinking I might give it a try. Another thing is since I cleaned it out I have a leek in the top 3' around the pond and will be adding some bentonite to reduce the leaking. Pond will drop 3' pretty fast and then it holds so plans are to add some bentonite clay to the shore line where it looks to be pretty sandy. Pond did the same when I dug it originally but I used some of Tj's additive and it sealed it ok. I just thought I would try the bentonite this time. it's easy for me to get and I thought my experience with the bentonite might help others who experience such things. I may play around with the bentonite additions and see what amounts might seal if not disked in but added as a clay liner. I can adjust water levels pretty easy in this pond through water well at 50 gpm +- or Honda pump to reduce water levels. Oh, water well tubing now has a pipe that sucks air into the water flow to add air into the well water. I have a DO meter and might just pull it out and see where O2 is when adding the well water. I may add some fertilized water from the big pond to get plankton growth kicked off prior to adding the gsh.

When all that is said and done, I will add the gsh to this 15yd by 15yd by lets say 10' depth pond. Will hand feed 1/8" Cargills 4512 @ 42%protein 6 to 7 days per week except for when I am away at such things like the upcoming PBC or vacations and or Sunday church.

I am looking for numbers to stock for growth, not looking for reproduction in this sediment pond but if it happens, it happens. How many would you start with? I'm hoping to feed some of the HSB and LMB with these larger GSH. Another thing is the big pond has good numbers of TFS but we know that will not last where I am and I expect them to die out some cold winter, hope not, but it could be this upcoming winter. It might be nice if the gsh could replace the tfs someday. I was also looking for time it takes to grow some out but I know it depends a lot on food availability, water conditions etc. I'm guessing will see