Carp feeding underwater - Mesmerising time lapse footage!
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- Fishery management and fish farming is all about understanding your livestock. Study this underwater footage of stunning mirror carp feeding for hours and hours, sped up into a time lapse video to highlight key feeding habits of carp to improve your understanding of these mysterious creatures!
I put our 'Standard Cereal Supplement' pellet in front of the camera, as you can see it breaks down fast and the bed of tiny particles that keep fish and inveterate life returning to the spot all day long!
Are they cautious of the heavily baited spot, or is it the camera?
What would you like us to observe in our next underwater time lapse video?
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I used to worry about our pellets breaking down to quickly, but now I can see so many advantages. The fish stay in the area longer, and break down the substrate, which in turn can prevent too much weed taking hold. Ive learnt so much just in this one clip. Great work Ben. 👍
Absolutely agree Gordon! I can appreciate the concerns that people have with a fast breakdown pellet, i used to have the same worries when i first started using them! The theory of getting a complete item of food into a fish with minimal effort is missing a trick in my opinion. I think we can train our fish to work for us by making them work for their food! Also, it encourages longer retention time of food in the intestine if the fish is hooving mouth fulls of cereal particles rather than lots of large pellets or boilies. The longer the meal is in the intestine, the more time that their digestive enzymes have to extract nutrient from their gut contents.
I’m sure that we’ll learn a lot more from watching them underwater this summer!
Thank you as always mate!
Ben
I’m with you. I think a natural habitat approach is the best system for lakes, or any ecosystem. Balance the inputs and outputs as much as possible.
Brill mate well done
Thank you! Cheers!
While I agree that a fishery should be naturally stable through good management, sometimes it's just gone too far in one direction and needs artificial interference to get it back on track. My lake is an estate lake that dates back to some time in the 1300s, it was probably around 12 foot deep at the dam wall and 4 acres in size but as the trees have hemmed it in (we're talking about oaks that are easily 8ft wide) and the silt has accumulated we're reaching a point where it'll become unsustainable without intervention. The weed grows so thick it looks more like a field by mid summer and the filamentous algae is beyond a joke so we have to add dye to try and slow it down, we have to put tons of agg lime in to try and break the silt down and we would put barley straw in to try and combat the algae if it was economically viable. I am taking measures such as cutting down trees to create wind channels, thinning out the lilies and cleaning up the in/outflows to improve water quality but I'm fighting against generations of poor management trying to get the place healthy and productive again, we don't have much money and even less help so we have to make decisions that will provide the maximum effect for the minimum of effort. The ideal end game would be a self sustaining environment but until then we've just got to do what's necessary to keep it under control so we can start undoing the damage.
I can hear your struggle mate! Sounds like there’s now a long winded process to correct that environment to get it back to a functioning and digesting the organic load, but once you’re there, it’s a far more sustainable and extremely fertile environment in which to grow fish! Stick at it with the tree work, minimise the organic load entering the system, encourage silt agitation and maximise the output of the system with plenty of sunlight, plants and algae. I have this conversation a lot, eutrophic environments need to go through a process to begin digesting the years of organic loading, no matter which way you look at it, that process demands lots of oxygen and produces lots of nitrates which feed lots of weed and algae! Preferential algal presence would dominate, but that obviously comes with respiratory challenges of those algae cells and the potential of algae crashes too. Starting with a healthy environment and fully functional nitrogen cycle prevents this, but old estate lakes like what you describe have many years of input to try and reverse! Dredging obviously being the fast lane, although expensive, the biological path that i describe is rewarding, requires persistence patience and skill to walk that tightrope!
@@BPMilling dredging is far beyond our finances as there is an estimated 4-6ft of horrible, dead silt in places and a likely presence of heavy metals/arsenic due to former tin mines in the area so everything we extract would have to go to landfill. My main plan at the moment is to focus on increasing oxygenation and turnover to kick start the natural processes. I was thinking about trying to tow a big rake behind a boat in the autumn/early spring in order to agitate the silt, do you think this would help? Obviously I'd only do small areas at a time to avoid releasing too many trapped gasses but I figured it'd be sort of like turning over a stagnated compost heap
Appreciate all of your videos. Isn't there an enormous amount of food or are the carp just small?
Great video 👍 Would be interesting to see how they respond to a scattering of quality boilies over a good bed of pellets as you have. Continue border feeding or hone in on the boilies?
Watch this space… it’s probably our next video. Recorded and in the bag!
What camera is this ?
Swings and roundabouts I think, it’s all about the starting product, like above if you have a lake so hemmed in with trees and years of silt build up it takes constant management, as for many natural lakes, I’ve seen many that have almost dissapeared due to overcrowding of trees and leaf fall creating a shallow puddle,
The lake I run has taken a lot of work and still going but we’ve seen improvements in silt build up with removal of trees, currently using barley extract to combat algae as it normaly goes pea green In the summer and that comes with its own risks, I think no fishery with a ‘good’ head of fish can require no work, although they are agitating the silt etc they are also contributing to the organic load and draw on oxygen, not to mention the whole concept of this video, feeding!
Would like to see an underwater large boilie approach without anything else, to see how they feed on them
Stay tuned, i’ve already done it 🤪
@@BPMilling 😛 🕺🏼 awesome
Now do the same video but using fishmeal pellets and lets see if theres a difference
That’s obviously on the to do list! Already done it, but we need to do a better job because it was bloody cold and nothing really showed up! Now it’s warming they might! Unless i’ve turned them completely vegan!
My observations are: fish are fish. They're almost irrelevant, it's the water and the direct environment that influences the behaviour of the fish. It's the environment and water that requires attention.
As an angler who believes in creation of our very complex world I have to just say that "evolution" has nothing to do with the complexity of our CREATED world.
Interesting 🧐
The fact it was speeded up with pointless rowdy music left me thinking how does this bloke expect you to make an observation in 8 minutes of chaos?
This is no place for negativity Robert, don’t be a sausage!
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