Fire Ants in Pond - 04/08/08 01:38 PM
Two years ago, during the drought in the West Tennessee area, we refurbished one of our ponds. It is eight acres and we drained two other ponds into that one. The two ponds that we drained remained dry until a couple of weeks ago, that was when we recieved over five inches of rain in a couple of weeks. All ponds (17) filled to capacity and two ran over the levies. One of the previously drained ponds swelled from a normal one acre to about three acres. Now we have a number of Fire Ant mounds floating in that pond. I read that fire ants will damage the intestines of fish that may consume them. No fish in that pond at this time but I was planning to use it as a grow out pond for CNB. Any one have any answers a how to get rid of these creatures. I cannot drain it as the 8 acre pond below has CNB, Black Crappie, Hybrid Stripes and Red Ear Sunfish.