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It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP Grandpa
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Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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Nice pictures of some small pond critters.
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Thanks Shorty for the nice little pic string ! 
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Cool. Wife loves the pic of the little toad. Thanks for sharing. Dan
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That RES has been eating well!
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Sometimes the little things in life can make you cringe..... Last night I spent a few minutes standing in 10" of water pulling weeds and throwing a small patch of filamentous algae up onto the bank, when I got out of the water I had eight very small light brown leeches attached to my feet.  I have never seen this type of small brown leech around here. Thoughts on leeches as far as my fish go? Good, bad, or indifferent?
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Have you seen any on the fish ? Fish do eat them.
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Have you seen any on the fish ? Fish do eat them. Laugh, I haven't been able to actually catch any of the fish I stocked. I haven't seen any of them except for an occasional surface commotion. I must have jump started the FHM and golden shiner population too well.  When I throw pellets in the pond, mostly what I see are thousands of small minnows up to 1-1/2" taking turns pushing AM400 pellets around like little soccer balls as they try to take a bite out of them. Then an occasional larger splash occurs which I suspect are the small number of larger golden shiners or YP that I stocked. I am still finding newly hatched fry (6-8 mm) along the pond edge everywhere, those I can catch with a cup. For the moment I won't worry about leeches affecting the fish, I suspect the WR's on what I did stock look really good right now and the leeches are having a minimal effect on them. I will say that having that many leeches on my feet for the short time I was in the water was kind of creepy.
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