I need to try and get a video but after researching and watching other videos the behavior seems similar. Sometimes in the mornings, this morning even, I see the fish "wriggling" oddly in areas around the edge of the pond up in the rocks and crevices. I have recently started water cress that is rooted and growing and I had thought the fish where eating on it...maybe they are. I am finding the roots waving out in the water in different areas I have the cress anchored. But I sometimes catch the fish almost trying to get up into the cress and rock crevices sometimes nearly exposing their whole body to open air before fliping about and getting back into the deeper water. There are usually several fish in the area rubbing around each other. They are beating up the cress a little but it's for them so they can do what they want I also see them poking at the water lettuce I just added this weekend so I'm still a little unsure if they are just trying to expose roots in the cress and in other areas where plants are near the edge or if they are spawning...or both??
All the fish are pretty close to the same size maybe a couple smaller, I may contact the previous owner and ask if they spawned before. I think the only plants he had where the water lillys, I know have cress, a couple water lettuce, and a couple hyacinths.
All the fish are pretty close to the same size maybe a couple smaller, I may contact the previous owner and ask if they spawned before. I think the only plants he had where the water lillys, I know have cress, a couple water lettuce, and a couple hyacinths.