Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain fhm fatalities

FHM dying three days after stocking into a new fishless pond is definitely not normal. If it was due to a food shortage the fish would not be dying 3 days after stocking. It takes weeks for a normal fish to stare to death. IMO either those fish were originally stressed, held too long prior to stocking, or stressed too much during hauling. Since the pond was filled from an older pond, lots of zooplankton (FHM food) was added to the new pond and poor water quality was not the cause of dying FHM.

Try as best you can to tally all the dead FHM and take a few photos of a collection or pile of the dead fish. If the same fish farm is to stock the pond they should willingly replace the dead fish when they add the rest of the sport fish.