Welcome to PB dogdoc. You come to the right place with all your questions.
If this pond is that new to you, I would spend all my time analyzing what you got. Spend all the time you can reading articles on the site here, and the posts that are made by others become an invaluable place for learning. I would be hesiatant to spend any money on the pond, be it for forage, fish, habitat, etc, until you REALLY know what you got going on. Granted you might have to spend some money to learn what you have, but thats better than throwing money into it and realizing later that it was all for nil.
The pros here will be able to guide you in the right direction for what you need to look for and do. I bet one question they will ask is what would be your goal of what to expect back from your pond? Fishing, swimming, types of fish you like, etc.?
It's better to do nothing until you have all the facts. To many of us are impatient like little kids and go overboard and find out later we messed up....Have fun....... Jim
