I've finally got my 1/4 acre, 12' pond with a 20' beach. Fast fishin and a good swimmin hole for my 7&8 yr old grandsons is all I want. Idealy, I want a mature population of 12-18HSB, 50SMB, 50RES, 150YP, lots of GHS, FH and some crawdads. All sides except the beach portion are 3-1 slope and there is currently 7' of water that is only 8 weeks old. Do you think any algea or zooplankton will grow by early march? I would like to stock 3# of breeder FH and 3# of small FH, some GHS(how many) and about 80 Papershell crawdads in early March. I'd like to put in a couple dozen YP and SMB just before they're ready to spawn. Would I need to stagger these a few weeks, YP first? I have 7 X-masss trees located very near 7 55 gal plastic drums cut off about 6-7" full of river rock and pea gravel in 3-4' of water and 6 floating pallets(for the FH spawn). I will put in more brush/trees very shallow for the GHS and YP. Will the FH and GHS be able to spawn and also serve as food for the YP and SMB? I hope to get some feed trained YP and SMB (hint, hint, CB1 and/or BC). I will wait until I see the yoy YP get about 1-2" before adding the HSB and RES. Will that be soon enough for the RES to spawn? I have a HP120-L Hydroflo linear air pump. It has a normal pressure of 2.845 psi, a closed pressure of 7.25psi @ 50Hz, 0.51 KG-f/cm2 @ 50Hz. Whatever all that means. My son in law got this and a stone for me. Will this work or did dumb-in-law screw up? How much will I need to run it to have proper turnover and good water quality? About 8-10'? (only a very small portoin is 12' deep, maybe80-100) sq.ft. I would like to add lots more mature YP and SMB as the yoy progress, but "it all depends". As Cecil would say, I.m a "serf with limited moohlah" If this plan is too complicated, I can always just go with the usuall fingerling stocking. I'm just tryin yo recoup a growing season. I know you'll have some ?'s for me. Please be patient as I have to go to the library in town to post on here. I can pm and recieve at home but figure there may be others interested in this approach being doable. Also tryin to put in support post for my pier, will Sakreet work in 30 degree temps(pour in dry or mix and pour), do ya think a gas ice auger would bore through frozen clay without tearin it up? Thanks in advance Bob-O


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