How long do these live? They went in as bait fish from the bait store in September of 2012.

Another note might be the feed. They really love this Martin's feed that is made local here that we use. I still run a bit of the 2.5mm with the 5mm floating feed.

The high energy feed sinks and has a higher fat content the 5mm that we use is a floating feed so we can see the perch eating.

The odd thing was that just before the summer the perch seem to really slow on the feed. Like they were not even there so we just keep feeding the minnows the 5mm.

My thoughts were the Perch found something that they liked better to eat. Or they were eating the sinking feed and we could not see them feeding. This is probably the case.

Cheers Don.

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