Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Fat heads are dying?

Fatheads should be able to tolerate the amount of silt laden cloudiness that you are describing. I am ruling out any toxic affects based on your descriptions. I am guessing that the cloudy silty water has suppressed the basic pond productivity enough that there has not been enough natural foods produced to sustain all the fatheads during late winter, early spring. Those you are seeing dead, I conclude have not gotten enough to eat and are dying of "natural" starvation/stress causes. Fatheads are tuff and pretty tolerant but they are still subject to nature's basic rules. You are losing the weakest ones that are least able to compete in a harsh situation.

PS: In my opinion 30 walleye are too many for the pond situation that you are describing if you are planning on them getting bigger than 12"-13".