Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Cage to cage transfer: Crappie

Try whatever you can think of to get them eating something. Chopped worms, chopped fish, chopped shrimp, even 1" pieces of garden worms. Crappie may tend to slowly starve to death and not die quickly during cage life depending on stress level. Crappie do have the ability to strain out and eat some species of zooplankton and get enough to just survive but not grow; all depending on the species and density of zooplankton.