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My 54x54 pond is handling the trout fine as of now, the trout weight about 4-6oz now x 600 trout, the ammonia is staying at 0 and on warm days the temps creep up to 68 degrees. Water temp is mainly around 64, I run about 4k gallons of well water a day to help with evaporation. ph is also staying at 7.8-8.0. The fish seem very active and healthy
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Rich,
What is the purpose of the sand filter?
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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its to filter out any particles in the water and a place for the bacteria to grow to eat the ammonia.
Last edited by RichMN; 07/20/15 10:03 PM.
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its to filter out any particles in the water and a place for the bacteria to grow to eat the ammonia.
That's what I figured but didn't think you would need that in an earthen pond that size if your fish load isn't too high. Oh wait I see in your first post it's lined. That will reduce nitrification. Doesn't your sand filter clog rapidly?
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 07/21/15 01:07 AM.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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so far I only cleaned it once, I have a woven poly sunshade over 3/4 of the pond so not a lot of stuff other than fish waste is in water. And from what I researched the bacteria should eat most of that.
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