Poeple ask about how long it takes for bugs to start growing in a new pond. My guess is about 30 minutes!
Small pond dries up, fills with foot of water and is pumped out. I then clean out all the silt and about two feet of the original bottom. It rained Monday and Thursday I pumped about a foot out again. There were waterboatmen everywhere. Are these the same one that were in there before or new ones? If the same ones, they would have had to crawl out of the pond completely because I pushed dirt out of the whole pond.