Originally Posted By: Errfoil
Originally Posted By: timshufflin
I'm a trout guy, I used Cutrine plus on my 1/10 acre pond doing 1/4 of it at a time. This knocked it all down and then I blued the heck out of it. Haven't had any back since, been about a month or so.


After adding dye what is your visibility? Is your pond normally FA free, if so what caused the bloom; or do you have to do this regularly?

Originally Posted By: timshufflin
I have fat heads, my trout don't seem to eat them but the fatheads sure eat my pellet feed. I feed about 20ozs. a day.


Do the fat heads eat any of the FA? The hatchery owner I just spoke to said the trout will eat the new fry, but the adult minnows are too big for trout fish food?!?



My pond normally has FA unless I add the blue. I can see about 12" with my blue in the pond and I do it about every three weeks. What causes my bloom? I guess what always causes it, nutrients and sunlight?

MY fat heads never ate any FA. My trout won't eat the fry, the teenagers or the adults. I half wonder if it's because the clarity isn't there to see them.

I do know that I've gotten through two summers with almost all of my trout living. I know of only 4 or 5 directly lost to the heat and low DO that goes with it.

I just got a new pond, I made it twice because I aint so bright.