The majority of the crawdads were on the small side to begin with and once the 20 GSF that I added to the pond spawned and made many, many more GSF, recruitment of the crawdads was greatly diminished. The GSF were introduced and 2 years later the pond was drained and there were hundreds, maybe thousands of GSF from 4 inches long down to YOY. I believe it was the predation of the very young crawdads that led to the significant reduction in population.
Ah, that makes much more sense.
Hopefully my BOW runs the same course.
Pond management is a game of Patience!
