Originally Posted By: bobad
 Originally Posted By: Walt Foreman
I ordered 300 a couple months ago for a pond I'm working with and the service was great. They arrived in great condition, very lively with only one mort out of 300. Who knows if they survived the large bluegill and shellcracker in the pond, but they looked frisky going in.


Walt,

That's about the quantity I stocked in my 1.5 acre pond, which was freshly stocked with BG/RES, and devoid of cover at the time. I stocked the shrimp in late March, and by about June, they totally disappeared. I thought they were goners. The following spring, I had a good crop of adult shrimp. 1 year later, I had a bumper crop of large adults. They disappeared again by June this year, but in the past week or 2 I have started netting large numbers of small shrimp. I think they are tenacious little survivors, and wouldn't bet against them!


Bobad

Can you advise me on some areas I might want to target for sampling? Right thru the weeds? I think you have more experience with these than anyone on the forum...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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