Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Pond Boss Is anyone interested in fish farming?

Yep watched them all already after you posted this first one. Just clicked on the other videos by you.

See what really interests me is that when I was going to school for petrol-chemical refining I lived with my uncle. My uncle and aunt were into raising tropical fish. Would sell mostly angel fish and about 1000 to 1500 the size of a quarter each week. I would feed and clean tanks for my room and board. This background and my love of fishing is why I have this pond on my farm now.

What I am wondering about is the perch we have in our pond is how many will learn to eat the pellets their parents are eating. I am worried that with all the great small minnows and crayfish the new young perch will over take the forage. The big question I have is what % of yearling hatched perch will learn to take the pellets and what % will not.

My thoughts are to trap and catch as many of the new hatched perch and raise them in a tank system like yours for the summer then put them back in the pond in November.

I could be nuts and I could be over populating my pond this way but if I am I could raise the perch just like you did with your tilapia. I have so much room in our barn that we are not using I could build a set up like yours.

How wide is your room? You have a tote and isle then a tote. Is it wide enough would your rather more room in the middle isle? Thinking of a green house for the summer and grow some tomato's/peppers then winter in a hot room like you have there.

Cheers Don.