Cow Dung In Fish Pond

[goldmonky]

Hi members,

My name is eric from UK ,live at the moment in germany and will be moving shortly to korat.next week we are coming over for three months and have started to build .

I have read alot of the forum both english and german.there are some very interesting themes and advice.but up to now I have not found much on here about fish ponds.Well to get to the point ,we had a fish pond dug out and used the earth as part of the filling for the foundation .The hole (12 x 8 Meters)soon filled with water because fo a good underground stream.in rainy season its about 2.5 meters deep dry season about 1.5mtrs.the water is a milky color I think its cause of the clay that the water passed through .anyway we introduced 200 tilapia fry two months ago.up till now only one floater(dead one) so I guess they are ok, frogs and tadpoles also seem to be thriving.

OK here`s my question.Has anyone ever heard about putting cow dung into the water to clear it??? it sounds a bit daft to me but my stepdaughter has put a load in and says it will clear it.that was 2 days ago and up to now no floaters.

Well thats it for now,I would love to hear what you members think or maybe those living over there could ask a few farmers or something .I will keep you guys posted if it works or not .bye for now,

Eric(goldmonky)

[Pond Life]

I don't know about clearing it, but I heard of people doing this to get algae to grow & Talapia eat this.

[sjefrie]

Nam Sai Farms has a good rearing manual

http://www.tilapiathai.com/inform/growing.htm

[ray23]

I don't know about clearing it, but I heard of people doing this to get algae to grow & Talapia eat this.

There is the key algae, you can get it that way. 200 Talapia in with frogs ect. You may not have any Talapia left. They may have been some critters lunch. If you check the established thrreads you will find all kinds of good information.

If it does turns out that yuo don't have any. Next time put them is fish net cage, with just 200 you won't need much at all. Our first year we lost 2,000 that way.Frogs were happy. I would recommend buying the small pellets and feed them that for about six weeks so they can fight back before you release them

Good Luck

Edited July 9, 2012 by ray23