Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait Baitshop FHM to stock your pond?

Diseases are much more prevalent in an aquarium setting than in a pond. A typical forage pond will have hundreds to thousands of times the volume of the aquarium, diluting possible pathogens, which are always present in some quantity, however minute. Typically, bait shops get their fatheads from the same minnow farms that we buy them from, and only hold them a few to several days.