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If anyone can get emerald or common shiners spawning in a pond, it is publishable valuable information. Pond spawning for them is not reported anywhere in the literature nor in any of my experimental stockings for emeralds or common shiners. It has been tried in various ponds. Try it for your results.

There is a pondowner in Maine that has a good chance of getting the Eastern Silvery Minnow to reproduce in his pond. Time will soon tell the rest of this story. Another option for a pond reproducing alternative minnow/shiner for those in the mid-US is the Mississippi Silvery Minnow 3"-6" max. It is a broadcast spawner that egg hatching does not require current from stream conditions.

The Central Silvery Minnow is another candidate for pond spawning ability as it has non-adhesive eggs that are deposited over a silt bottom. If the eggs don't get eaten first they should hatch on the mud bottom to provide some fry. Do you know the chances with small sunfish present of what eggs surviving for lying on the pond bottom with sunfish present? End of first summer the hatchlings can be 3"-3.5" with adults as big a max of 6".

There is also a Western Silvery Minnow.