Just an Update. Over the Summer, the Perch have grown from about 2 - 3 inches to 5 - 6 inches. I have only seen a few but I am not too worried about that, as there is allot of deep water for them to play in and they are currently the top of the food chain. I had thought I had lost all of my breeding fatheads and rosy reds because I couldn�t see them anymore, but I keep seeing tons and tons of very small to fairly large minnows around. ( I think I went from about 2,500 minnows to somewhere around 2,000,000 so far.) They are all over the place. I have one larger and one smaller painted turtle living in the pond now.
I am now seeing a fairly large splash and circle around when I feed my fatheads. Seems something is boiling up on the minnows as they feed and making a snack of them. It appears to be a larger fish, ( Bass I am guessing ) that made its way in through the feeder creek while I was refilling my pond after I lowered it to build a more permanent inlet dam system. Time will tell what is in there now.
I have tons of frogs ( at last count somewhere in the 50 - 60 range ) made up of peepers, leopard, and bullfrogs. I am also seeing tons of tadpoles, mainly bullfrogs.
I am doing my best to keep the Heron off the pond using a decoy heron and thus far seems to be working.
I just thought I would give an update and thank you all for the great advice that is making this a fun hobby. I will try sometime to figure out a way to attach a picture up here for all to see the pond.
Thanks again and talk soon!!
