Sunfish eggs are not nearly as sticky and are cared for by the parent.
Excellent points in you post! I like your posts here! However do you think a GBH would care if a male was sitting on a bed and would keep a GBH from wading through the bed?
My point by saying the eggs are cared for by the parent was not meant to say a sunfish would scare off a GBH from walking through it's nest. My point was, should a sunfish egg somehow get stuck to a GBH's foot and be transported to another pond. That egg would normally be cared for by the male sunfish. Fanned with the tail to keep it aerated and silt free. So it would have less chance of survival than say a goldfish egg which has no parental care and probably would have just about as high a survival rate... If a sunfish can battle off a GBH, it would definitely have to be a RES though! HAHA
Gotcha. True, much less chance of survival but not nilch. But all it takes in two fish of the opposite sex! I missed a puddle with rotenone the last time I drained down my pond. With just missing that one puddle (it was under some structure so i didn't see it) I ended up with a few thousand fry this fall!
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
