So far, we've seen (15) dead Yellow Perch out of (100) stocked.
Tomorrow, I'm getting about (30) more YP and (20) SMB.
Dang. It takes a few days for the dead fish to generate enough decomp gasses to float the fish. Not all will float too.
I brought back 200 4"-6" HSB and a few hundred HBG and put them in the holding tanks. So far about 25% have croaked. HSB because they aren't feed trained, HSB because they had a minor ick infection when picked up and due to hauling stress - they are more fragile for me to haul than Golden Shiners (at least it seems that way to me).
The supplier thought they had the ick infection beat, I didn't see any on the fish in the haul tanks but maybe that weakened the fish just enough that the haul did the weaker ones in. I told my customers that I wouldn't be stocking the HSB right now, that they'd be stocked in the Fall when the water cools down. I'd rather have the fish die here than in the customers ponds.
