Just back from a 10 day road trip. I see the egg ribbons are now floating, looking like they are decomposing somewhat. We had colder than usual temps and the neon algae has dropped to the bottom and the water has cleared quite a bit. Not much fungus on them but I'm seeing a big proportion of the eggs are brilliant white. It seems most of the top surface of the strands are all individual white eggs. I think Dr. Perca (Bill) told us once that these were not fertilized. I'm wondering where my male YP have gone to or why such a big proportion did not get fertilized this year.
The recruitment of YP has been very poor which I felt was related to predation of the fry by the large population of SFS and a few large GSH, but perhaps there is a male factor to blame here?
Come on Ontario!! Dono, any ribbons yet???
