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Pond
Bruno, MissyMu, and Gunner going to feed fish in pond. Feeding fish time. The pond did not have any fish after the big freeze in 2019 after the pond did not thaw until late May. All the fish we had died. I bought about 500 feeder Gold fish and the blue Gills reproduced from the birds dropping Blue Gill eggs. The blue Gills multipled thousands of them. Look at when we feed fish flakes. The pond looks like its hot water boiling. You can not see too many feeder goldfish but the ones you do have tripled in size. The little baby blue Gills know when it’s feeding time. Fish are smart creatures. When the pond was stocked we had a a large big mouth bass named Gilligan. Gilligan let us pet him and hand feed him. The coolest fish 🐟 who knew feeding time. Was like a dog. Liked to be hand fed. Ate hot dogs, bread, by hand. Food Gilligan didn’t like, he spit out. Gilligan died during the artic freeze when the pond did not melt until May that one year. We have lots of wildlife in this half acre pond. Bull frogs, ducks, cranes, and snapper turtles. Those snappers can be dangerous. I used to go swimming 🏊♀️ in the pond until I stepped on a snapper turtles 🐢. Then I stopped. Always careful dogs don’t get too close to pond due to snapper turtles. Sometimes I invite hillbillies down the street to catch snapper turtles for Thanksgiving and the love it. The hillbillies love snappers. Its a delicacy for them. I watched Bizzare Foods with that bald heavy set guy that eats everything from cockaroches to squirrels and saw him skin a snapper turtles 🐢 and eat it like a steak. Some people eat racoons, skunks, deers,wild turkeys, goats, cranes, parrots, and pigeons too. Not for me. No zoo animals. Cannot eat live animals I see. Only packaged frozen foods from the grocery stores only.
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Blue Gills getting fed. Every day, we go out around 4 pm CDT to feed blue Gills.
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Forgot to include video of fish eating their flakes. Fish know that it’s feeding time. Throw flakes and you can see it’s like water is boiling. Wonder if these fish is going over populate the ponds. Thousands of Blue Gills. Not hundreds but thousands. Seems like they are getting bigger too. At first they were the size of guppies. Growing longer and thicker. Eating like crazed piranhas. Goldfish are spread out but these Blue Gills are in stacks. Never seen anything like this before. I will catch one of them and see the size and keep track how big they get as week pass. Never put any blue Gills in this pond. They all appeared this year. Must have been birds dropping Blue Gill eggs. I will post closeups to the fish too. Sections of the pond has nests where the male is guarding the nest. Really cool stuff 😎 for now but wonder what the outcome will be. Trying to get the crane out of the pond so it will not eat the fish.
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Thank you Sapna for posting. Is there a way for us to get a faster video loading system? I waited twenty minutes for one video and then it said that is cannot be loaded.
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I could only get the ones she uploaded to play on my phone…
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This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by John.
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What a colorful life you lead! Your pond sounds like a mini-ecosystem, teeming with stories and characters. It’s fascinating how nature finds its way back, like the bluegills repopulating from bird eggs and the goldfish growing so rapidly. Gilligan the bass had quite the personality!
Snapper turtles do sound formidable; stepping on one must have been a shock. I can see why you would enlist the help of your neighbors to keep the pond safe for your dogs. It’s intriguing how different cultures find delicacies in what others might avoid—definitely not for everyone.
