Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding new pond feeding question?

From my experience what you are seeing is sometimes fairly typical especially if the bgill were not trained to eat pellets prior to stocking. Don't ever expect to see the redears eat pellets. A new pond with newly stocked fish has lots of natural food for the fingerlings. As the natural food supplies dwindle the fish start looking around for other foods. The pellet eating fathead minnows will lead other fish to the food. Sometime the new fish are shy of humans. Be patient and diligent, but don't overfeed. Wasted food will help contribute to additional filamentous algae growth. You may not get active pellet feeding from the fingerlings until next spring.