Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose New pond stocking

See if you can get 100 3"-5" Redear Sunfish, and if you can't get those get 100 Pumpkinseed Sunfish. They will eat snails in the pond, and the snails are a crucial part in the life cycle of white and yellow grubs and black spot disease (which really isn't a disease). https://www.in.gov/dnr/fish-and-wil...ldlife-diseases-in-indiana/fish-disease/

Don't let Dan talk you into stocking anything else and don't let him change your stocking numbers. DON'T stock Hybrid Bluegills either. The only thing I'd do if possible is increase the FHM numbers 2x or 3x, but first find out if they are farm raised or wild caught FHM. If wild caught, you should sort through them to make sure you have 100% fatheads and no bullheads, common carp, bluegill or other fish that you don't want to go in the pond. You only have one chance to do it right without having to push the reset button.

The FHM are the only things that the SMB will have to eat, and Dan's SMB aren't feed trained - at least none of the ones I've bought from him over the years have been pellet trained, no matter what he said............