Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain LMB - how much do they eat and/or how quickly?

I would just stock as many largest size BG you can afford, create shallow dense cover for them [the coontail will help - until winter at least], and know you'll have some that survive and reproduce. LMB are not ideal for bows that size, but they are there to stay. Your LMB are eating their own, the gambusia, the cc, the goldfish, and anything else they can find right now. You should probably make a strong effort to remove some LMB as 100 in a half acre pond is in my opinion about 50-75 too many.