Great read. Our air system will show up today. Should I wait to put the system in an run it. This is a brand new pond we dug last spring. It is not even a year old yet. I am still getting a handle on where full pool wants to stay. I have filled the pond twice to where I would like to see it and it drops about 1" over night. The ground is still really really dry here. The ground frost is just out and the field tiles have just started to slow. This is not a good sign for a wet spring. I think the ground is really dry still and I would expect the banks to take a year or two to pack solid.

I guess you see this all the time with an over excited new pond owner. We did have a good plankton bloom mid summer in the little water we did have in the pond. We do have good growth of algae on the rock around the pond over winter. The current goal is a nice perch pond for the kids to enjoy fishing and cooking up a few. We know we should wait another year like not this fall but next fall before you try to take some to eat.

Still focusing on building a dock, waterfall, hydro, and air pump system. The fish will grow. Maybe we should be feeding them with pellets now by hand every other night? The minnows were active and feeding on the feed before we topped the pond up.

Cheers Don.

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