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#332993 05/02/13 07:13 AM
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OK, I am now getting antsy after reading through the site. Is there any reason not to put some good sized BG in my smaller, back pond now for immediate entertainment and possibly food? It is approximately 70' dia and has a max depth of only 3' but appears very healthy. It is full of minnows and some smaller BG of unknown strain. I figure I can focus my attention and resources on the larger pond redo for now.
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It's going to be hard for anybody to give a definative answer on that unless they know your history and goals for the pond(s).

A few possible bad things can be:
- Reg BG will overpopulate without a predator.
- The Bg will eat all your FHM.
- Everything just might die because of the shallow water.

A few good things might include:
- use it to start growing forage( BG, or FHM, or other) to transfer to the larger pond when ready.
- Could put in HBG to keep it under a little better control, with a predator.
- You have nothing to lose if your going to do-over this pond.

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I'm curious as to why you made it only three ft. deep? Your pics make it look fairly new.

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The Large BG will definately eat alot of your fathead minnows


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