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It is still a bit faint, but if ya look along the dorsel fin ya can make out the points of the distinctive bars....or stripes....of the yellow perch....the others that ya mentioned are others in the sunfish family and are much smaller than bream and chances of seeing them deminish as ya head north.....Crappie...or Specs as they are also known by....inhabit deep water and only come to the shallower water each year to spawn....they are a true "schooling" fish and travel in groups of similar sizes.....they also have a very delicate mouth and if ya ain't use to catching then....ya will bring back just the lips on the hook....they are called paper-mouths by quite a few too...:)
 
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Well, if there's open water access to the pond, why not put them back? I would imagine it's pretty much filled by this point with the rain and snow you've had. I'm sure there are plenty of nutrients there to carry them through the winter as well with everything you stirred up. Unless of course you've had them long enough to consider them house pets...
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Because I think the change from 65°F water to probably not much more than 32°F water would kill them instantly.
 
Mr. @Bruce, sir,

Do you think you could put the fish in a large bowl and gradually cool the bowl to the cool temperature? And maybe I missed it somewhere, but did you get the fish from your pond back when you cleaned it out and have saved them all this time, or did you get the fish from some other place?

Senile Texas Aggie
 
The fish somehow managed to live in the muck puddle that the tadpoles were in, the one we were adding water to so the tadpoles wouldn't die while I worked on the north end of the pond and waited for rain. We saw scores of fish and tadpoles die as the pond dried up and they were stuck in little pockets of water that disappeared. And the heron came daily to help further reduce the population.

How these two fish(there were 2 others that were dead when I found these) rode the "river" of mud down when the muck collapsed (*) I do not know. Never saw any fish after that event, though we did see tadpoles. I have no idea what any of them ate or how the fish breathed in the super mucky water but figured muddy water was not unusual for tadpoles.

I don't know how I could cool the water gradually and actually get it to pond temperature. Plus, IN CASE I happen to have and Adam and an Eve, I'd like them to have the chance to get big enough to maybe reproduce in the spring out in the pond. I have no idea what is out there for them to eat now. There is algae but I don't know what they eat (clearly NOT algae because there was always a ton of it when the water started to warm in the spring) and if it is insects or similar, I doubt there is much out there now. But the pond IS full.

* go back however many pages to see where I got in trouble with DW and DD for trying to stop the flow.
 
Bruce said:
The fish somehow managed to live in the muck puddle that the tadpoles were in, the one we were adding water to so the tadpoles wouldn't die while I worked on the north end of the pond and waited for rain. We saw scores of fish and tadpoles die as the pond dried up and they were stuck in little pockets of water that disappeared. And the heron came daily to help further reduce the population.

How these two fish(there were 2 others that were dead when I found these) rode the "river" of mud down when the muck collapsed (*) I do not know. Never saw any fish after that event, though we did see tadpoles. I have no idea what any of them ate or how the fish breathed in the super mucky water but figured muddy water was not unusual for tadpoles.

I don't know how I could cool the water gradually and actually get it to pond temperature. Plus, IN CASE I happen to have and Adam and an Eve, I'd like them to have the chance to get big enough to maybe reproduce in the spring out in the pond. I have no idea what is out there for them to eat now. There is algae but I don't know what they eat (clearly NOT algae because there was always a ton of it when the water started to warm in the spring) and if it is insects or similar, I doubt there is much out there now. But the pond IS full.

* go back however many pages to see where I got in trouble with DW and DD for trying to stop the flow.
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You sure one is a girl and one is a boy? Could be Adam and Steve you know. No baby fishies if thats the case. :ep
 
I did say IN CASE 'cause I have NO idea what gender they are other than the odds are good that the choices for each are either male or female.

Actually I COULD put them in DDs bathtub, for two reasons:
  1. We are taking DD1 to New Brunswick starting in a week and leaving her there for the winter.
  2. No one uses the bathtub. In fact, I've never even put on the spout or put up the bar for the hand held shower (no stupid fixed shower heads for me!!), there is no curtain or door and there are 4 stacking drying racks sitting on the bathtub.
 
Well you know, once you have the tennis room with 4 courts, olympic ice rink, basketball court, football field, baseball field, olympic size pool complete with 10 meter boards, 6 lane bowling alley, you have to find SOMETHING to fill up the extra space! Why not fish pond?
 
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