Welcome to the forum cheyenne. I am a fisheries and wildlife biology major at Arkansas Tech. Here are some links on raising golden shiners that my Aquaculture class used. If they dont work I can copy and paste them over to here.

http://pls.atu.edu/biology/fw/aquaculture/SpawningBaitfish.pdf

http://pls.atu.edu/biology/fw/aquaculture/FeedingBaitfish1.PDF


I am guessing you are going to try the 250,000 fry that Andersons sells. If you are close to them I would suggest going to thier farm and buying brooders. That would be a lot cheaper. The 250,000 fry are $250 and the brooders are $10 or less per pound. For a half acre pond you would only need 10-15 pounds.