Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait Raising Red Wigglers, the easy way.

I have a little 20'X30 or 40' pond that keeps water in it most years. It is really a hole that was dug out to get clay to build up my driveway in a low section, about 150' long. It overflows into my main pond through tinhorns.

I thought I'd get a few pounds of the red swamp crawfish next spring to stock the kind of pond. Then I could use a few for bait, maybe after a year have enough for a batch or two a year for the three of us to eat, and let a few probably overflow into the main pond now and then to hopefully keep some reproduction in there going. But with the LMB & CC they will have a hard time keeping any numbers up.

Todd and I thought we could get more than four, but finally gave up finding more. I decided I'd keep these in the house in case one or more turned out to be a female and would have some eggs. If that happens the others go straight to the kind of pond and she stays in until the she lets go of the baby's then she'll she gets tossed and the baby's stay until they get too big for the tub and hopefully big enough a good number will survive in the the kind of pond. I have seen where some kinds of crawfish will use a cup like a hole to lay eggs in. And I have a couple of cups but so far no luck.