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My pond has them, thousands of them. I have never seen any fish chase after one of them, not like the LMB go after the bream or the bream after alittle piece of bread. I have LMB, CNBG & afew secretive Redears. Who eats them? I have read they taste bad?
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I think just about all predator fish eat gambusia. My experience is, when used for bait, the fish seem to like them less than other baits. That includes other types of minnows. There may be something to the "bad taste" theory. I have an idea how you can prove it. 
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Small bass will eat them. I had millions until I put bass in. Now I have a few scattered here and there. Couldn't say how they taste.
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I have seen really small bass line up along where the gams are. I saw rather large gam go nose to nose with a tiny lmb and then both panicked and swan off at a fast pace. I see a lot of really small bass hanging around where the gams are.
In Dog Beers, I've had one.
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They are not minnows but livebearers that can breed throughtout the summer (and year around down South)
Fish will eat them.
Often called 'gambusia'
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Think about how many baby gams get eaten by baby bass and bg. When I had baby bass in my guppy tank(live bearer with similar sized fry) I didn't ever see any guppy fry. That's why I took the baby bass out and put them in my larger tank, so I could have guppy babies. The large gams are baby factories and I think the smaller gams get eaten a lot.
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Originally posted by J. E. Craig:
Who eats them? I have read they taste bad? J.E Craig, If they taste bad, then I've got fish generations that have eaten bad tasting Gams for something like 75 years out of the same pond. In my experience, all fish eat them but HBG seem to have a special preference for them. The feeding on Gams in my HBG pond goes on all day long every day.
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Bass eat them, trust me on this, bass eat them... (he says wiping a tear from his cheek). Gams reproduce at an incredible rate. DIED put 9 (yes that's nine) of the little guys in his pond an within a year had thousands. People always use the phrase "breed like rabbits" I think it should be breed like Gams.
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