If you don't have good amounts of fine leafed submerged vegetation established in the pond, the kind of weeds most pondowners will not tolerate, then stocking them will be a waste of time and money (if you have to buy them). They feed on the attached plant and animal community that lives on the weeds. FW shrimp also eat a lot of the decaying vegetation as it dies. They are processors of decaying organic materials mostly plant matter. FW shrimp should be in the coastal wetlands of southern shoreline of Lake Erie. They occur in the wetlands of western lake Erie. The only ponds that I can get them established in are like those mentioned above. They can tolerate quite a bit of predation providing the submerged weeds are present and not a lot of FA is present.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 08/05/08 09:10 PM.
