Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking what do Red Ear eat? (other than snails)

RES are a little like BG that keep kosher and have a serious appetite for snails. If you stocked BG in the pond at the same time as the RES and the BG are visibly doing well this year, the RES are probably OK as well. Lusk has reported that in some ponds BG will thrive and RES disappear, while in others the RES will thrive and BG do poorly, but for the most part I believe that, sharing many of the same food sources, they tend to fair similarly (with BG typically outnumbering the RES do to higher fecundity).

RES are more cold water intolerant than (non-Coppernose) BG, but in Mizzoo you should be far enough South to not have to worry about that except in really cold Winters (avoid supercooling in your Winter aeration).