Originally Posted by bob_esper12
Hello everyone,

I have a 1/3 acre pond in Middle Tn that is 2-3 years old . I was wanting to introduce grass shrimp to the pond when i first dug it, but without any cover it would have been a waste of time and they'd have been eaten out in no time. Even though I wasn't able to get them going at the time I've never let the idea go of having them in the pond. I think they'd be a great food source for my primarily pan fish pond.

So my current thinking is that I could dig a small 25' x 25' x 2-4' deep area at the front of my pond. I would leave a wall to separate the two, but it'd basically be touching my current pond. I can fill it with my well water which I've got running 8 hours every night on a timer already and it'd be super easy to re route it to this area. Then I could get some vegetation growing in this area and put some grass shrimp in there. I could then let them get good and well established and then start moving them into the big pond and hopefully get them established. I could also eventually just dig out the wall separating the two and make my current pond just a tad larger. Or keep it separated and have a local source of grass shrimp for my pond buddies.

Thoughts?

Sounds like a plan….. do you have weeds and grass in established pond? If so they might make it just fine. Do you have a source to get all you want? Mine survived just fine in my pond