How to disinfect a newly dug fish pond? A four-step method beginners must learn

Many friends nowadays raise fish themselves, and for a fish farmer, the pond is the key to everything. If the pond is newly dug on your own property, you cannot simply put the fry in right away. So how should a newly dug fish pond be treated and disinfected? How do you manage water quality? Let's take a look.

How should a newly dug fish pond be treated and disinfected

1. Clear away leftover fish eggs

The first requirement for digging a fish pond is that the water source must be abundant; without water, you basically cannot raise fish. Many fish farmers may not know that some fish eggs are quite tenacious. If you start raising fish directly in a newly dug pond, other fry may later hatch out, and these fish have not undergone any safety treatment, so they are very likely to carry infectious pathogens that affect your later farming profits. Therefore, a newly dug fish pond needs to be dried out first, then filled with water, cycling about twice, in order to clear away leftover fish eggs.

2. Check whether it leaks

Checking the pond for leaks is very important. If you only discover a leak after you start raising fish, dealing with it then will be much more troublesome. New fish ponds are the most prone to leaking, because they are dug by machine these days and accidental gaps cannot be seen. To check for leaks, fill the pond with water, then watch how much water is lost; if there is no obvious change in the water level within 1~3 days, it basically proves there is no leak.

3. Disinfect

With a newly dug pond, no one knows whether the place is hygienic and clean, but to be safe, disinfection should still be done. For disinfection, people generally use quicklime, bleaching powder and the like, mainly sprinkled over the interior of the pond. Because pathogens may also lurk around a new pond, it is best to disinfect the surrounding area properly as well. If the water is deep, add more disinfectant; if shallow, add less; the main thing is to sprinkle it thoroughly.

4. Manage water quality

When later filling the pond with water, you must pay attention to water quality. Raising fish has very high demands on water quality, and fish farmers in many places have suffered big losses because of polluted water. It is advisable to pay close attention to a new fish pond in the early stage and not let polluted water flow into the new pond, otherwise all the previous work is wasted. It is best to have some purification space between the water source and the pond, for an extra measure of safety.

Raising fish is not hard; what is hard is getting the details right. We hope this article is of some help to your fish farming, and everyone should be sure to disinfect a newly dug fish pond properly.