Pond beginning!

[Broncosfan]

What about stocking your pond with freshwater shrimp? Are they available in your area? Those panfish will grow to gargantuan size with a diet of those. We have a lake out here that is chock full of shrimp. The trout have huge bodies and small heads and are really hard to catch, Rainbows and Cutthroats and some Browns. Those shrimp are the reason why they get so big.

To answer that I have no idea. I know the fish have slowed down eating as its cooling off. Also I'm still seeing spawning activity so it might not be the weather keeping them from eating. The fish have been in for right at 7 months. We have seen growth in all. Plus we're seeing lost of smaller fish so reproducing is going well also.