Azteca, after your video, another video popped up from your channel. Are those YP attacking the floating feed? Wow!! How did you train the yellow perch to be so aggressive to eat fish food?
The YP I originally purchased from Rex (Rainman) five years ago were all feed trained. All offspring have remained feed trained. I recently cleaned 8 nice sized YP all caught at the north end of our pond (feeder and sunken cedar trees are all at south end). It’s only a 1ac pond, but when cleaning the fish, I was surprised to see the Optima BG feed in every one. I didn’t think they traveled around the pond that much.
12 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (decreasing), SMB, and HSB (only two have been seen in 5 yrs) I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023.
After about 1 month the fry now stand together they have about 3/4 to 1 inch.
I would like to make a video, but you will see hundreds of tadpoles attract by the light an the food, but for the work they do I am ready to let them take some food from the fry, my pond is free to filamentous algae and clean.
I can't wait to see when the Yellow perch fry will start to spin under the light if the tadpoles will stay there.
2 weeks ago I gave a lot of fry to a friend in exchange for a 300 gallon tank, I don't know how many fry I have now, I will keep them until the end of September, then I will give them.
I can't wait to work with the tank, I will put eggs in it and feed the larvae in drip below the light up to 12 to 15 days.
Despite my mistakes, I have fun, I hope you like these little video, as they get bigger I will make other video
There is only about 2 feet of water and with the temperature of 35c-36c I keep about 3/4 of the pond in full shade, otherwise the water would become too hot and I would have a profusion of filamentous algae, there is no more tadpole to eat the algae.
Since about 3 weeks the small perch start to turn around the light at a good speed they are conditioned.
azteca - I am thinking the smallness and shallow nature of your fry-fingerling pond works to your benefit in that it helps promote the good success that you have in feed training the perch. Fish are more concentrated and more likely to find the initial food offering. Good work there.
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Instead of tadpoles to eat the filamentous algae, I would like to put about 10 female crayfish with eggs in a small cage to better remove them when the small crayfish will be ready.
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