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#543679 02/03/22 10:44 AM
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My 1.25-acre BG/LMB pond is doing fine in terms of both species seeming healthy. My neighbor removes 60 BG and 12 eating-size (<14") LMB per year. My question is if adding GSH could mess things up. My interest is to help control short-lived (<3 week long) algae blooms that infrequently occur now, and as another forage species. I have lots of GSH in another pond, so I could add different sizes, but don't want to risk goofing up a good thing. There are RES in the pond as well. Thank in advance for advice.

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Have not heard that GSH eat algae like that very much (assuming you mean FA) Adding any species will change things (good or bad) to some extent.


Food items GSH - FishBase

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Link won't open. Maybe too much junk?

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Originally Posted by RAH
Link won't open. Maybe too much junk?

Maybe try it again, it worked fine for me the first time I tried.


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Works now. Looks like there are no opinions on whether adding GSH could hurt the BG or LMB? Guess its better to be safe than sorry and not add any.

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I would save them for another day - like when/if the LMB out eat the BG population.
















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I'll take that advice!

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Snipe, what are you showing us here?


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."

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I believe snipe is showing what GSH are capable of doing and that is eating fry. I have kept them out of my pond for fear they will feed heavily on BG fresh hatch fry.

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Originally Posted by Sunil
Snipe, what are you showing us here?
Yeah, sorry, didn't see response. GSH died with smaller GSH lodged in throat. Absolute predators..


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