Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations planning a PB member Yellow Perch experiment

ccreek - your pond is in a dilema. It needs more habitat / vegetation for survival of the FHM but adding more dense habitat to favor FHM will also favor goldfish & other sunfish survival. You could easily have too many gfish and sunfish that are not growing and overeating the foods. Be aware the goldfish may eventually become too abundant with a high fish biomass (standing crop) detracting from the fishery goal. To a point enough you have to renovate the whole pond and start over.

The YP are the ones severely reducing your number of FHM. YP really 'like' slow swimming smaller FHM.

Egg laying of YP is not similar to laying of eggs of many fish species and even chickens. YP egg laying takes several minutes of extruding the long ribbon of eggs as the accompanying males do the fertilization as the ribbon lengthens. During the process the female is swimming along and among structure "hoping" for the ribbon to hook onto something to help pull out and off the ribbon. I think where the eggs are finally dropped is quite haphazard and by chance.