Welcome Zach... You may want to start your own post so your question gets more exposure. However, if you do have emerald shiners and not a more common species of shiner like golden shiners you're going to struggle to spawn them. Emerald shiners are BIG water fish. They do best in very large lakes and rivers and don't do well in even small lakes let alone ponds. I don't believe emerald shiners have ever been successfully spawned in an aquarium.
