Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Fresh water shrimp?

Here are some links to previous discussions that we have had about scuds; aka and commonly called freshwater shrimp by laymen. However they are not really true shrimp as in grass or grass shrimp.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=112888&page=1

http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=140120


http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.ph...ite_id=1#000003


http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.ph...ite_id=1#000000

Mostly about freshwater shrimp (Palaeomonetes) not scuds (Gammarus).
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.ph...amp;Search=true



Scuds the genus Gammarus have several species with the largest about 1/2" to 5/8" long. The larger ones survive in cool water, trout habitats or marginal trout water (cool water species) and need vegetation usually some dense vegetation to survive moderate fish predation. Wood a member here had lots of them in his pond in Western Canada - Alberta.
The larger species that Wood had grew well in the pond that had Coontail as the main weed. Places that raise, harvest and sell scuds grow them in fishless ponds.