Considering grass carp for your pond? In this video, we will uncover the top five things to consider to avoid making the mistake of stocking your pond with grass carp.

Should I stock my pond with Grass Carp? Usually, it is all or nothing. If you have a farm pond you want to grow fish, big fish I wouldn’t advise adding grass carp to your pond but if you’re a golf course and you’re looking for a pristine lake. Grass carp are the answer to devastating all the weeds in your pond.

Will grass carp make my pond muddy? A common carp usually do but grass carp are white anymore, and they do not muddy up your ponds. If you have an extremely shallow pond, they may swoosh their tails and cause organic matter to surface up and create refraction in your water making the appearance of your pond being muddy.

Will grass carp eat the algae or fish food? Stocking grass carp can lead actually to algae blooms because they devastate all of the ecosystem inside of your pond and, therefore, causing the algae blooms to occur because the excess nutrients in your pond, but if you have game fish, and you want to feed them with fish food grass carp will steal from sport fishing and increase your food costs by far.

Plan on stocking five to fifteen grass carp per acre at least 12 inches in length to control your aquatic weeds and keep them from being eaten by largemouth bass. The average cost of a twelve-inch grass carp in North Carolina or South Carolina is between nine to twelve dollars each with volume discounts for those that order large numbers.

Here’s the biggest secret of all most pond stocking guys won’t tell you but a grass carp typically is not effective for at least two years.

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