Small update.
One of the suggestions I had received during restocking was to cage the water inlet pipe to prevent contamination, and lime any puddles that could potentially hold small sunfish. I'm glad I did this since we had big rains roll through East TX yesterday, and we had lot's of water moving into the CNBG pond. Hopefully there will be no cross contamination this year.
The water had cleared nicely after refilling, and has about 18" of clarity. I will fertilize, and add pallets for the FHM this week. Water is at 66 degrees and steady.
I've been unable to get any shipments of Aquamax yet, so I had been hand feeding AM 500 with no results. This weekend, I crushed the pellets, and tried again. The CNBG fry boiled the water. Dumb me again, because I should have known this. After several crushed feedings, I just threw 500 out, and they attacked it. I guess they just had to adapt to the different sized food. I ordered AM 400, so that should be about right for the feedings.
2 threads that will be of great help on my future growout pond build have been active in the last few weeks. I learn something every day here at PB, and being able to easily drain the pond and remove the fish is just as important as being able to raise the fish.
TJ's Thread Cecil's Thread
