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Indianola, MS | If it is just a few minutes they'll mostly live in just a container of pond water(not water hose water) and some ice to cool the water but if you are going a distance with them crowded in a container you'll need some ice to cool the water and some way to deliver oxygen. A bottle of O2 with a aquarium type bubble heads is the best way, thats how they deliver fingerlings. You have to dissolve oxygen into the water so they will not suffocate in some manner. I'd get an old 250 gallon tote and rig a door that will open wide and lets the water and fish out fast. Figure out a way to aerate the water. Put that on a trailer you can back trailer and all off into the new pond if possible and dump. It'd be way better to wait until it is cool though, water temp 55 or less. Stressing them can lead to disease outbreaks you'll regret till you drain the pond and start over. One time in the 20 years we raised catfish we bought stocker fish that were sick. That got the whole pond sick. Obviously we had a population density so high that it required a great deal of pond management to prevent mortality but even in a more natural pond you'd still want to be careful with the fish i suppose. Its super hot, the pond they are living in may be having low oxygen levels anyway and the fish might be stressed when you pull them in or by being caught. A bottle of pure oxygen and some ice to cool some pond water and they still could die. When it is hot things can go wrong fast | |
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Relocating fish
