Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations SMB behavior

My RES pond started our very infertile. Just a clay bowl. I did fertilize it once to help get it started but otherwise the only fertility it gets is what comes off ag ground runoff and what feed is fed which is still pretty modest.

I was concerned the first year the RES would have pretty slim pickings for food and that may have turned out to be the case and reduced recruitment the first year. I have several other ponds to compare the water with and this pond is definitely the least fertile.

Now that the SMB recruits are hitting pellets fairly well the amount of feed fed is going up which should help as time goes by.