Inheriting unstocked massive pond. What to stock?

[justarn]

just build a wire mesh fence across the stream and throw a big wels in and a bigger pike then enjoy!-0

 

[MN_Rebel]

For clarification, my pond is the first body of water. I'm at the top, I'm the first stop for most of this water that pours out of the hillside. The things in the pond all crawled upstream to get there or walked in, like salamanders and our red-legged frog.

When I moved in I spent weeks devising ways to eliminate the invasive carp that were already there. I even scooped out bullfrog eggs to make ecological room for the native, protected red-legged frog and other animals. I bought this property exactly because it is a sanctuary, a refuge for the native wildlife. If I were an irresponsible person, I'd have tossed koi in there like a buck-toothed moron the week I moved in here. You have no idea who you are talking to, so stop pretending you're the police or god. I care about preserving the balance of my forest and wetlands every bit as much as you do, from the sounds of it. I just haven't felt like wasting words on it until now. But since you can't shut up about it, here I have provided a paragraph for you, so you know I'm not a zitty 14 year old with no functional prefrontal cortex. So unless you have something CONSTRUCTIVE, you can drop this nanny business.

I'm trying to find out WHAT native fish I can put in there. How is that not obvious? Yes, I am also toying with other ideas, thinking of what else I "could" do, but those aren't the things I ever "would" do. It's sad that I have to delineate this for you. I COULD put a wels catfish in there. I COULD think about it, write it down, have dreams about going out and feeding it baby chickens. But I never WOULD do that. Wels are European and would eat every salamander, crayfish, and frog in there!!! And it would be ILLEGAL.

So, back the real world where I don't have to walk around saying obvious things. Largemouth bass actually are pretty cool. I might take a small one from the wetlands below and raise it in a holding container, teach it to come up for food, then move it to my pond. That makes the most sense. Just one so it couldn't breed. LMB get pretty big anyway, that's monster enough for me, I think.

I don't give a carp about everything what you just said after these several posts that you acting like you are not taking any advice or keeps asking for other ideas beside the native fishes. You sure act like you are not satisfied with the answers and that's why I was super irritated by your responses. The final answer is sticking with the native fish that is actually locally to the creeks. How hard is that? I asked you what species that are native/or found in the creek few posts ago and I recommended to just stick with these native fishes. So don't trying act like a victim in here...

 

[MN_Rebel]

Very Well put. So many people on this forum are inconsiderate ignorant morons. Not to be harsh but it is true. Do not let them bring you down. I can only dream of having an awesome "wildlife sanctuary" property like yours one day!


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I don't think you should have any say in this at all.

 

[knifegill]

Apparently somebody doesn't know what discussion forums are for.

 

[MN_Rebel]

Apparently somebody doesn't know what discussion forums are for.

Apparently somebody doesn't know how to take an advice. I gave you few nice suggestions few pages ago and try to lead you away from making a bad decision. And now I'm a bad guy here....

 

[divemaster99]

Let's not turn this into an arguement people.

 

[Aquanero]

Knock it off!

MN if you disagree with KG just leave the thread this is going no where.

 

[knifegill]

Instead, let's tell me where I can buy a leucistic largemouth bass.

 

[MN_Rebel]

Instead, let's tell me where I can buy a leucistic largemouth bass.

What about just a regular largemouth bass that was stocked in the bog?

 

[divemaster99]

I think you'll have to find one . not to common to see natives for sale other than a few places and they even more rarely have morphs of them, with the exception of channel catfish.