Stocking Your Own Pond

[LlamaMama]

I've just stocked my pond with vampire fish to use as fertilizer. I'd like to stock death fish too, but to make it really easy, I'd want to have angel fish in there to use as bait for the death fish.

When stocking your own pond, do the fish eat each other? Would there be any angel fish left? Are there guidelines for fish vicinities?

Also, when I stocked one side of the pond with vampire fish, the other side automagically contained a variety of other fish. The only fish available on the first side is vampire fish, so it appears that the original variety on that side was replaced by the vampire fish, not expanded to include vampire fish.

So if I stock vampire fish, death fish, and angel fish, would I be totally replacing the miscellaneous variety? Or are there localized "sections"?

Edit: my apologies, I just found a thread on the topic here.

[Pam]

You should be able to stock any fish in the pond without fear that they will eat each other.  They are often in the same fishing spot in the wild, so I don't think it's a problem like it is in an aquarium.  If it's a big enough pond, you may be able to put your stocked fish in one spot and still leave the other fish in place.  But I'm not 100% certain on that.

[LlamaMama]

I just tried 2 kinds of fish last night. I'm not allowed to place more than one kind of fish in the exact spot, but there is room to place more types in adjacent spots. So essentially, throw the line into the spot holding the single type of fish you're after.

This makes me wonder whether it's necessary to use bait, if there's only one type of fish in that spot. I didn't see that addressed in the other thread.

[Swede1992]

Bait will still make you more likely to catch the fish, but you're right that you technically save time since there will only be one kind of fish to catch. That's unrelated to having baits or not though.