Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam Pond Project in North Central Mississippi

I think the water will drown out the pines. Not sure on the other trees. Willows would like the wet.

Yeah,the water will make short work of all the trees .Placed 2 TH feeders out yesterday and with water temps 58 and me chopping at the bit I started a slow "get to know your feeder" course with two 1 sec sessions daily of 7:00a/7:30p.Will run that until the fish tell me differently.Really great info so far by the mods/posters,thanks for your interest.

keep up the good work and keep us posted

Water temps have warmed to upper 60's low 70's still nothing but turtles hitting my TH feeders.Getting the slightest algae response at base of feeder (6 in water) from the wasted food.(Feeding 1s twice a day for 10 days now).Ph 6.8 and alkalinity isn't specific enough on my strip to determine.Hardness very low.

Any recommendation of a more specific alkalinity meter/test would be appreciated.My supplier is having a had time catching his intermediate CNBG so I'm sitting on 2000 (intermediate) CNBG 1000 fingerling RES/1000 fingerling native BG/4000 FHM....10.5 surface acres moving to 14 with more rain

Have ordered 2000 more intermediate CNBG but it could be another month.

At this very early stage I think I will not fertilize until I can evaluate feed program/waste contribution to bloom and raise my alkalinity in the late fall with additional lime.

Seems I need to evaluate myself as a manager as well for a year/or two before committing to fertilize.I'm proactive by nature so sitting on the side of fertilizing has been tough but just too many things point to waiting.Any suggestions fire away....