Pond Maintenance

If you have a pond, then you will have turtles. But, determining if you need to remove turtles is based on two things: what are the goals for your pond and what type of turtles do you have? Very often, ponds managed as fisheries will get overpopulated with turtles because of the increased food source. And too many turtles means too much competition for resources. So, if you have a fishery, you probably need to remove turtles to ensure the health of your fish. 

Typically speaking, you’ll want to feed twice a day, but there are circumstances when more frequent feedings are desirable, so we’ve designed our fish feeders to accommodate up to 6 feedings per day. Pond King Fish Feeders allow you to set the timer so you can set your feeder schedule and forget about it until it’s time to refill. The best gauge of how much feed to use is your fish - if they aren’t eating all the food in about 10-15 minutes of each feeding, you’re feeding too much.

There is a reason our biologists recommend pellet feeding your forage fish. We have found that it is the most efficient way to grow large fish. Pound-for-pound comparisons of fish growth over a season has found that feeding fish is a more efficient transfer of weight per pound than only stocking forage fish.