I put 10 dozen shiners in the pond here in Maine in early June. The pond is now swarming with shiner fry with a least two distinct sizes. They are eating the Auqa Max feed very well. So to the question “Will shiners spawn?” Oh Yesssssssss.

The sunfish spawned once and the fry seem to be growing well although they are not taking feed. They are about 1 � inches and prefer to swim around in these small attack school getting after the smaller shiner fry and tadpoles. Very interesting. I have yellow perch in as well but have no idea if they spawned (I'm guessing not due to timing of their introduction to the pond) and haven't seen them since I put them in the pond.

I have grown concerned that one of more of the eight sunfish might have been a greenie instead of the red-breasted sunfish and pumpkinseeds I thought I put in the pond. The pumpkinseeds (5) seem to school together and spend more time in deeper waters. The guy I think is a greenie cruises the bank and is most definitely interested in the fry. He swims along the bank and makes abrupt 90 degrees turn into the bank and weeds were the fry are hiding.

Any comments on this behavior?

Thanks