Hello all. I am brand new to this website, as well as to the pond world. I am an independent producer for the discovery channel, and even with all of my outdoor contacts in the TV world, I have had the roughest time in the world getting pond advice of any kind. I must say that I have had a very difficult time trying to get any questions answered, and, I have even contacted a supposedly reputable management service that has promised to be here to give me advice for 7 weeks now. They wont even call me back at times so I have given up. I have an app. 1/2 acre pond that is spring fed with a drain placed horizontally on the bottom, constantly feeding water through the spillway. Very nice touch, as the pond was man made. It has been left untouched for 15 years, and I want to be sure that it is where it needs to be.
There is a lot of grass growing in the pond, particulary under the water, and the pond averages 5 feet up until the damn, in which it goes to 10 feet deep. There is leaves and silt galore in it as well.
I was told to put the die in there by a feed store guy, so I did. Then, I was told that may be a mistake and cause a die off .. this was from a pond expert over the phone who never showed up here for a look.
It is stocked with 400 bluegill and 100 catfish. The cat fish were put in there 3 years ago and are 7 inches long, and the bluegill are still minnows. There are also small bass, 100 of them, but there are minnows. There are 10 sucker fish in there as well to eat the grass.
I feed them fish food with high protein to grow them twice daily...but I do not use much food.
I have a 1 HP pump spraying water into the lake 24 / 7 , in which I have been told that could be bad as well...;
I guess I basically need advice...I do not know what to do, but I do know that the fish seem healthy and fast to eat.....
Thanks for any advice you can give me out there....
R. S. White
