Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Feeder Finally Up - How Much and How Often

Ken:

I don't have weights for the LMB for ya, but typically we feed fish in ponds the amount of food that they can clean up in 10 minutes.

Do you know the conversion rate for LMB? (Weight of pellets of food to weight of fish flesh?)

Cecil Baird1 used to feed his fish more times per day, but he found that they grew almost as fast feeding 1x or 2x/day and his food bill was less.

If you don't have an O2 meter, I'd think hard about investing in one. An O2 crash will NOT be good.

I don't know what to tell you about feeding the fish during the winter. They have to eat something, but not as much as during the warmer months. Maybe hand feed hydrated food? The warm water fish really slow down eating once water temps drop below 60 degrees.

Once the biomass gets larger, I think you will run into water quality issues if you aren't doing something for waste removal or filtration.