self filtering live well/pond thinggy

[mattison187]

hey i just recently moved into my new place and i was messing around by the river out back and i found a metal tunnel that brings a stream from across the road to the big river on my side. the tunnel is aprox. 100yards long. anyway i dammed it up. and i think it could be a neat little spot to put natives in. i snapped some pics of it. tell me what you guys think of the idea..

this is where the tunnel dumps into the little stream thing. the water underneath where it spills in is aprox. waist deep.

heres a view from where i dammed it up. its knee high at the dam and inbetween the 2 deep spots its probly 6-8" deep

and heres a couple pic from ontop of the tunnel\

i was thinking if you guys think it will work id use eggcrate at the damn to make sure the fish dont escape through. tell me your input

 

[aquaculture]

don't do it, will spreed diseases that will be carried by the fish you willlput in there and kill wild fish, your fish would look healthy but they still are carriers. also if it ever floods they would escape. better to dig a whole 10 feet above this area and 20 ft away and make it your pond, distances are precautions incase of floods.

also pollutants from run off could kill captive breed fish

even if you caught a wildfish from somewhere else and moved it across land to this site ou can still spread unwelcomed disease and pest.

 

[stingray man]

ya i dont think it should be done either its stuff like this that could make more people want hr669

 

[KMKN]

even if its native i wouldn't go tank to river not good for fish that already live there

 

[DubaiPond]

If you took fish from the river this stream runs into, that would surely be ok.

 

[mattison187]

If you took fish from the river this stream runs into, that would surely be ok.

thats what i was thinking. just trout from the main river so my kid can feed um and stuff, nothing from pet stores and stuff lol

 

[Muske]

Egg crate, sounds like the fish are pretty small. It will keep the fish in, but also any leaves, sticks and debris which could really damn it up and possibly erode the surronding slope causing major problems.

Would he be feeding native foods?

 

[gzeiger]

I doubt you'd need to feed in that environment. As long as you observe the ethical precaution of not introducing any fish not from that exact body of water, I think you're ok. If you're looking at bigger fish, I think you'd be better off with a large pile of rocks than with eggcrate, but both will probably require regular cleaning due to buildup of debris.

You didn't really discuss the location much, but I would be somewhat hesitant to use an artificial barrier like eggcrate if this is a place other people may visit, both out of consideration for the esthetics of the place and because somebody might "clean up your mess" and you'd lose the fish.

It is almost certainly illegal to move trout, for what it's worth, and they are probably not in fact native (more likely stocked by the DNR). If they are already in that water though I have no ethical objection to it.

 

[mattison187]

I doubt you'd need to feed in that environment. As long as you observe the ethical precaution of not introducing any fish not from that exact body of water, I think you're ok. If you're looking at bigger fish, I think you'd be better off with a large pile of rocks than with eggcrate, but both will probably require regular cleaning due to buildup of debris.

You didn't really discuss the location much, but I would be somewhat hesitant to use an artificial barrier like eggcrate if this is a place other people may visit, both out of consideration for the esthetics of the place and because somebody might "clean up your mess" and you'd lose the fish.

It is almost certainly illegal to move trout, for what it's worth, and they are probably not in fact native (more likely stocked by the DNR). If they are already in that water though I have no ethical objection to it.

i didnt even know it was there and ive lived here for 2 months and been fishin the main river like every other day. so i doubt too many ppl will mess with it.