Buttery Browns - Trout Feeding - 07/27/14 09:28 PM
Hey guys we've just recently (yesterday) stocked some (50) brown trout into a small pond on my property. The pond has a huge number of what I believe are fathead minnows and a good number of big golden shiners. It's full of them. We bought a bag of feed (pellets) as well and don't really know the process of feeding.
A few questions,
How do you tell if the trout are eating the baitfish? There are so many in there that I wouldn't notice a reduction if they were eating them.
The guy we bought the fish from basically just told us not to feed them when its warm, we tried to get more info, but it was a bit of a battle to get him to say more.
How often do you feed, I've found some charts for other types of trout to find out how much food/week they need, but do they need to be fed daily, weekly, do they need to be fed pellets at all if they are gulping up our minnows and shiners? And again, how do you tell if this is the case.
Finally we were also told to wait a few days before trying to feed them, how many days would you recommend?
Here is a link with some pictures of the ponds, it is the front (smaller) one we have stocked. (The one without all the weeds)
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=383218#Post383218
Oh and it has an aerator on it even though there isn't one in the pictures.
A few questions,
How do you tell if the trout are eating the baitfish? There are so many in there that I wouldn't notice a reduction if they were eating them.
The guy we bought the fish from basically just told us not to feed them when its warm, we tried to get more info, but it was a bit of a battle to get him to say more.
How often do you feed, I've found some charts for other types of trout to find out how much food/week they need, but do they need to be fed daily, weekly, do they need to be fed pellets at all if they are gulping up our minnows and shiners? And again, how do you tell if this is the case.
Finally we were also told to wait a few days before trying to feed them, how many days would you recommend?
Here is a link with some pictures of the ponds, it is the front (smaller) one we have stocked. (The one without all the weeds)
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=383218#Post383218
Oh and it has an aerator on it even though there isn't one in the pictures.