What is it? fish/shrimp?
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I don't think I've ever seen one either.
DocHeb
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It appears to be of the fairy shrimp family
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Looks scary.... Kill it with fire! :laughing:
One inch. Kinda weird looking. Front looks shrimpy but rear looks like fish tail and top fin. Maybe some kind of baby fish?
One inch. Kinda weird looking. Front looks shrimpy but rear looks like fish tail and top fin. Maybe some kind of baby fish?
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Did you dig and stock the pond? I'm just wondering if it's one of those things that magicaly appear in a pond? or if the previous owner put it in there and you never noticed them until now? I have two species of fish in my big pond that showed up on their own that I did not put in there after digging it.
Just amazing how a pond gets new species in it!!!!
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Just amazing how a pond gets new species in it!!!!
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I have heard/read (?) that waterfowl help spread aquatic species. Is this correct?
Steve
I've heard something similar; I've heard, shoreline feeding birds will sometimes have fish eggs stick to their feet and they then transport them to another pond where they hatch and survive. Sounds reasonable.
Fairy shrimp can lay their eggs and the pond can dry up completely. The eggs lie dormant till water refills the pond. I don't know how long the eggs can lie dormant before they die though. I do know that fairy shrimp are a part of the food chain because perch will feed on them.
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You can also get species transfer from boats, boat motors, boat trailers, bait buckets, etc... not to mention fishermen playing "stock the pond" in waters they do not own. 
Also, just because I like to tell stories, when I was a little kid, we were coming home from my grandparents' cottage and it stormed so bad and rained so hard that my dad had to pull over. While we're sitting there on the side of the road, small frogs (or toads, I don't remember which they were) started landing on the windshield wipers. There were hundreds, if not thousands of them all around the car. Dad's best guess is we dodged a tornado that probably sucked up some of the surrounding swamp lands and dumped them there. Who knows how far they traveled? :confused2:
Also, just because I like to tell stories, when I was a little kid, we were coming home from my grandparents' cottage and it stormed so bad and rained so hard that my dad had to pull over. While we're sitting there on the side of the road, small frogs (or toads, I don't remember which they were) started landing on the windshield wipers. There were hundreds, if not thousands of them all around the car. Dad's best guess is we dodged a tornado that probably sucked up some of the surrounding swamp lands and dumped them there. Who knows how far they traveled? :confused2:
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What does it taste like? P)