Yes, I've seen several folks say that their fatheads all disappear after the initial stocking and they aren't worth stocking, but my experience is different. They reproduce like crazy and the fish love them and keep their numbers low. I always see them in the pond, not big schools, but several scatterd around that I know are reproducing many little bites of food for the other fish.
Threadfins are kind of a mystery to me. I don't believe mine have been killed in the winters because the last two winters have been very mild in East Texas. I've seen other posts in which some folks have had good luck with Threadfins and others have not. It is not for lack of trying in my case as I've stocked 10,000 in each of the last two previous springs only to watch them disappear. This year, for the first time, I did have some small numbers of survivors. I don't have an explaination.
