Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose New 2 acre pond stocking plan

I agree with DDavidson and Lusk, snapping turtles mostly eat sick, weak dying and dead fish. I have had two large ones in my pond for 25 years. I think smaller one is male and big one is female. I have seen them layered together. I see not young snappers in the pond. Mine must be territorial. Fish steal pellets from the nose of the turtles and turtles don't try and eat the stealer fish. The turtles do eat the dead animals such as dead birds, dead muskrats and dead fish in the pond and the dead food does not have to be freshly dead. Apparently 2 day old dead fish are just as savory.

I trapped snapping turtles for years; snappers will eat absolutely everything they can catch or find. I used to put them in a big horse trough to clean them out for a week before butchering, they would puke up fresh baby ducks/fresh fish/muskrat feet/duck feet/ other smaller turtles. I myself don't like or want them in a pond at all and remove them with prejudice.
And in a pond that people swim in I would never want any.

Those baby ducks had it coming.

Those baby ducks F.A.F.O.

Went fishing today to see how the BG and RE are doing! Also, FHM are in the millions, its crazy... I have yet to catch or see a Golden Shiner, but I did see one on the bank that a bird caught awhile back. They also seem to be getting big and are healthy.

Anyway, here a re few pictures of fish I caught today. I noticed a lot of red marks. Please take a look and let me know what you think?
The BG and RE are FAT, like really obese.. hahaha. I feed 3x a day..

Thank you!

The red spots look like fish lice.