I will be building a 700 sqft pond to keep maybe 40-50 large mouth bass for food. I am prepared to feed the fish.
My question is, can a pond this small be naturally sustaining? Meaning, am I required to provide aeriation, water filtration, etc?
I had one small pond that size that last summer I connected it to the adjacent pond because of the difficulties involved in managing it. I called it my pre-sediment pond and now through a pipe it has been joined to be part of my 1/10th acre sediment pond.
This particular tiny pond had high flow throuh rates of water and was subject to fish kills because of the high rate of water exchange.
Here is a thread I maintain that keeps links to what I call specialty ponds, which includes lots of small ponds. You may be able to glean some insight from the linked threads of other peoples small ponds.
Specialty pond list Here is one of the links in that thread that may be encouraging.
Tiny ponds You might want to consider some fish other than LMB.
