Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations trout pond temps without fresh water supply.

air temp:77

surface temp:65

2 ft temp:61

ready for some browns or rainbows

Do you have any way to measure the O2?

It'll be interesting to see how the pond temps progress this year. If it's already 61 at 2 feet, I am a bit concerned it may get too warm by mid summer.

the O2, not yet looking into it, and thats without the well water i pump into it, and the shade trees arent fully bloomed, so i'm curious too

http://www.qualitytrout.com/about1.html what do you think of these trout? tolerance wise?

The brown trout are going to be most tolerant to warm waters by far. In the creek behind our hunting cabin, we see the brown trout survive the summer about every other year on average. We see the rainbows survive about 1 out of every 4 or 5. We don't bother stocking brook trout because they just don't last long into spring. They're gone by mid to lake May while out brown trout can be caught into early July. Then they are uncatchable until late September when the waters cool back down if they survive.

thanks, i'm gonna check these guys out, i talked to him and he says that they do pretty well

and i was looking at the kamloop trout

Wow troutman, your water temp is much cooler than mine. I am already at 67.6 water temp at 2 foot deep.
My trout did really well last year even though it was a hot summer. I lost 2 foot of water to evaporation during the summer, so I only had 10 foot of water during july and august. I just cut back a bunch on the airating and somehow they made it. good luck.