Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Any egg YP egg strands sighted in Northern Ponds?

I found this OSU paper on the web that answers a lot of the questions asked here. It also gave me the idea to look at some eggs under my microscope. I got the idea too late though because I had to work the entire weekend and now that I'm home it looks like the strands are gone. I know what day they were produced and I've been visiting them daily (till this weekend), checking the water temp, I think it was time.

We had a cold spell here too, when I arrived home from work 6 am Saturday morning the air temperature was 32.2F so I checked the pond temp and it was 54F. My water temperature stayed over fifty everyday since the beginning but I don't know if they were even fertile. It sounds like Fungus can be an devastating issue also. Time will tell.

Here's the article, not sure if it's been posted before.

http://southcenters.osu.edu/sites/southc...olFactsheet.pdf

Wanted to add that I haven't noticed any recruitment since I've had my YP but I have seen a couple of ribbons, one a year almost, lol. Well recently I was laying on my dock looking at a piece of aluminum siding I put in (per John Monroe) when I saw a small perch swim by! I must have had some recruitment because it was smaller than an original stocker. I did try setting minnow traps to sample but never did catch one that way. I used stale bread as bait and a chicken neck one time, maybe I wasn't at the correct depth or maybe they are had to catch that way.

Thanks for the link Loretta. Interesting stuff!

You are welcome. OSU has some basic aquaculture videos, I think they are good, here's a couple:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ay4eLKtKw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWEwWavuMEU