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Originally posted by Eric_in_TN:
Have any of you purposefully stocked or relocated pumpkinseeds into your pond? I don't know anything about them in terms of reproductive rate or if it would be bad to have them in a small pond.

I've caught countless pumpkinseeds in creeks, and would like to have some in the pond if they wouldn't be bad for balance.

Thanks,
Eric
The only negatives I can see is they will hybridize with your bluegills if you have any, and they will not get to a very large size. Supposidly they prefer cooler water than other sunfish and the fact that their natural range extents up into Canada and northern New England seems to back this up.

I may try and feed train some in the future and put them in my yellow perch pond which runs cooler as an experiment. All males probably.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.