Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Looking to stock a small spring fed pond

The only fish that could pull off a successful spawn in that water temp would be Yellow Perch. I don't have any idea where you could get them in Utah, and I don't know if they allow them. Some states have different regulations. Don't add any more goldfish, they will stir up the pond bottom and make the pond turbid. The only saving grace for your pond is the high water flow into and out of your pond. Hopefully that will be enough to keep the water clearer.

BG need higher water temps to reproduce. So do most every other fish that are stocked in ponds. Some predators might be able to reproduce but then you will have to continually add fish to feed them. In that size pond, you are better off management wise (effort wise) just to stock non-reproducing predator fish like Hybrid Striped Bass. I would plan on adding an automatic solar powered fish feeder. I don't know of any forage fish that will reproduce at that water temp in enough numbers to feed the fish in the pond.

There aren't any fish that I know of that will target eating algae and that can survive in that water temperature. That's very close to lethal temp for Tilapia, and Triploid Grass Carp don't focus on eating algae. Trout are sensitive to copper based algaecides, so you would have to use something like Green Clean Plus for the algae instead of Cutrine Plus. Depending on the amount of nutrients in the spring, algae might not be an issue if you could get some native underwater plants established in the pond.