Salmon in the Classroom
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Camphilophus;2649595; said:Grow a few out for me to 5-6" and then bring them to me. My girlfriends got a natural pond. I wonder if they'd survive in there.. Doubt it, but worth a try.
Unfortanately I don't think they would make it. Wouldn't be cold enough or deep enough.
MultispeciesTamer;2649691; said:illegal most likly, and it wouldnt work need more space then a pond and must be cold water
It's spring fed and the pond is about a acre itself. I doubt they'd survive but if any douchebag was just going to throw them in a pond and hope for the best and succeed it would probably be me LOL. I don't think it would be deep enough for them to live throughout the year though.. It's only like 15' at the deepest and most of it is only about 4-8'
i did this a very long time ago, when i was back in middle school, the school had signed up with "trout in the classroom", and a teacher had volunteered to do it, but there was alot of equipment involved; 500 gallon tank, huge powerheads, really big chiller (oppsoite of a heater)
spring fed is all good but sometimes they still get to warm in summer if the pond isnt deep as you said its not, and they would also need feed comercial food as there is nothing for them to eat in the pond
When I went to the hatchery they had what they called a "show pond". It held all the kinds of fish that they raised at the hatchery. It had LMB, SMB, Steelhead and a couple of 6' lake sturgeon. Didn't see any northern pike or muskellunge. It didn't have any salmon in it. I assumed it was because they couldn't survive.
huh, flint river??? who'd of thought that.
That's so awesome that the students will see salmon in the creek in a year or two and wonder if it was theirs.
That's so awesome that the students will see salmon in the creek in a year or two and wonder if it was theirs.
fobrinkle;2651034; said:When I went to the hatchery they had what they called a "show pond". It held all the kinds of fish that they raised at the hatchery. It had LMB, SMB, Steelhead and a couple of 6' lake sturgeon. Didn't see any northern pike or muskellunge. It didn't have any salmon in it. I assumed it was because they couldn't survive.
I'm pretty sure that if sturgeon survived in such a thing, pike and muskellunge would be able too, trout are a whole another thing though.
SOKO;2655097; said:I'm pretty sure that if sturgeon survived in such a thing, pike and muskellunge would be able too, trout are a whole another thing though.
I wrote that wrong. I believe there were pike and muskellunge in the pond but I did not see them. THere were no salmon in the pond though.
