Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations developing a spring?

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A couple books I like are Trout Farming Handbook by Stephen Drummond Sedgwick and Intensive Fish Farming by Joathan Shepard and Niall Bromage.

Be aware some of these aquaculture books can be quite pricey due to limited printing. The Trout Farming Handbook is a UK book and some things may seem unfamiliar but it is well worth it.

I'm still learing about how much water it takes to keep a pond cool enough and enough exchange to hold a given number of trout. I may be changing ponds for my trout to an upstream pond and making the present trout pond a pellet trained smallmouth bass pond. An ajacent pond will be a bluegill/yellow perch pond that I can funnel via gravity some of the trout overflow to ajust maximum summer temps in the low to mid 70's to keep stress down on the larger perch. The smallmouth bass pond downstream will receive overflow from the trout pond later in summer when that will keep temps for the smallmouth in the upper 60's. I can bypass the smallmouth bass pond or run full bore from the trout pond into it.