I had a loss today. I wish i had done a closer picture.
This is an LMB that appears to have choked on a small redear sunfish. One month ago the LMB and redear were all about the same size, (2-2.5" long).
This was one of my largest/fastest growing LMb but there are others of comparable size. I lost a couple more redear recently that were not eaten but seemed to have trauma/bruising on their bellies. I am going to have to drain this tank and separate the red ears from the LMB asap to keep from losing more feed trained redear and hopefully stop losing LMB?
overall the LMB growth rate seems every bit as fast as any tilapia if not more vigorous.
