Originally Posted By: canyoncreek
Originally Posted By: BobbyRice
by TP you mean tilapia?

Tilapia usually don't eat many FHM as far as I know, but they might try if hungry enough I suppose?


+1 to that...

How about tilapia eating the eggs of the missing in action bluegill? Or the bass eating everything in sight, BG or LMB until they couldn't fit the larger TP, BG or LMB in anymore?

What was the idea of putting more TP in if they were the problem in the first place? Wouldn't you try to restore BG/LMB balance first since the BG could serve as the LMB forage backbone by themselves and only add TP for FA control or bonus forage once you were back in balance?


Good questions. I think what happened is that the stocking schedule was planned well in advance. A good thing, normally, but in this case it wasn't revised in response to actual events, such as clear infertile water despite extensive liming. Thus, the TP had little in the way of algae to eat, so they turned to FHM and maybe small BG.

Last edited by anthropic; 10/27/16 05:56 PM.
7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160