Just thought I'd post and update regarding my fish.
Up until a few weeks ago there was no noticeable activity in the pond. I had still be been keeping everything maintained, aerated, adding clarifying bacteria packets regularly etc so I decided so try another small RBT stocking. I went to a different local fish farm and picked up (20) 10" RBT and stocked them.
At this time I switched to aerating only from 7pm-9am and bought a 800gph fountain pump and set it up to splash water on the surface of the pond 24hrs a day. I was starting to get a bit of a greasy algae slick on the surface and the fountain seemed to completely eliminate it over the course of a few days. I had also been trying to faithfully throw food at the same spot of the pond within a 2hr time frame every evening.
Of this 2nd stocking, I lost 5 fish after about 2 days and again wasn't seeing a whole lot of activity.
I persisted with the feeding and miraculously this past weekend I seen a trout rise after a few minutes. Ive been feeding them every night and have been lucky if I seen one fish rise. Tonight I threw some food and literally went and hid behind a tree and after about 2mins I watched the surface of my pond boil with rising trout!!!
I also noticed that not only were the larger sized trout rising, it looked like some smaller ones were as well which would be from the first stocking that I did back in June.
Needless to say I'm extremely happy that things seem to be going well, all of a sudden, in the pond. Although they are very shy of anything near the edge of the pond, they are feeding pretty heavily and things are working like they should as far as I can tell!
