Over the last week I have caught an estimated 150 of half inch long crawdads below my pond overflow in a swampy area and transferred them up to my RES/SMB pond. The pond has both FA and is chocked with bushy pondweed which I hope they will work on as they grow. I have 2 to 4" rocks lined all the way around the pond edge as well as a few larger rock piles and rock spawning areas so hopefully they will have plenty of cover.
Funny thing about the overflow pipe, both snails and these small cradads were trying to go up the overflow pipe to the into the pond. Some of the snails were making it. Don't know if the crawdads were or not but I could see them in the pipe.
I also put in 4 grass carp last fall, so I probably will go from overgrown with bushy pond weed to a barren and muddy pond. I hope the crawdads and SMB can find some happy medium and just mostly control the pondweed. We will see.
