Added a total of 500 lbs of salt to the pond over this week.
Today was the first day this week that I did not observe any dead fish floating in pond. Had observed at least a dozen small buegill, three full size BG and a 11" LMB floating earlier in the week.
Don't plan to add anymore salt at this point. One thing I noticed was that when salt was dumped in small fish liked to swim above it as it disolved.
I'm curious about where the fungus infection started. I did notice some fungus on some shiners that were stocked in the spring but I didn't notice any fungus on BG until September. Curiously it was around this time I switched to the fish based Purina AquaMax Sport Fish MVP. I'm wondering if the food may have introduced a strain of fungus. I've noticed in my aquarium that some infections seem to originate from processed fish foods. Think I will stop using the Purina product once I use it all and go back to the cheaper non-fish protein based food.
Last edited by nvcdl; 10/17/20 01:42 PM.
