Ok so a few guys on here know I am working on a perch pond. Pellet trained perch were stocked last fall and are growing very well on feed. We have dropped in the pond a solid 10,000 emerald shiners and 2000 fat head minnows. All seem to be doing quite well and feeding on pellet scraps too.
We have added 400 paper shell crayfish to the pond and since then the pond water quality has gotten so much nicer. It is clear and clean.
My question is, is there any benefit of me adding or trying to establish a fresh water shrimp population? There is a trout farm north of me that maybe able to sell me a bunch of these little guys to start the pond off. Water is hard pushing 8. I have a very good rocky shore and the crayfish just love it but I do not have any plants at all.
Could dropping in a few hundred of these fresh water shrimp be all for not and could I be wasting my time and money on them?
I really feel I should try my best to get as much diversity as I can in my pond.
Thoughts? Few pictures of the crayfish, fathead, and bluntnose shiners.
Cheers Don.
Great older thread with a lot of good links I've yet to get to all of them. DonoBBD, could you give us an update on how the grass shrimp, crayfish, etc. have done in your pond since this 2010 thread? I really like the looks of your pond in the pictures on the first post of this thread. Has it evolved the way you envisioned? Any more recent pictures? I recall you saying in another thread the metal dock cover getting blown off.
Thanks!
