Hello.
Since 2years I don't give nothing and I don't have problems anymore.
Last year I cath some at around 14 inches, I give them pellet food only 3 times a week, they have crayfish and I give them fathead minnow, I have a forage pond.
The pellets are from Corey,
Big pellets 5.5 protein 44%
Starter 0.5 protein 55%
Like I said I like to play with my fish and do different thing.
One year I made I will say a big hole 20x20 feet, I put there lots of fathead minnow, very near this big hole I made a small hole 7x10 feet.
The second year I fertilize the small hole for phytoplankton, and I put around 400 perch larvae, and I put the automatic feeder, and around mid July I connect the small hole with the big hole, you imagine the party there, and I still gave them small pellets with the automatic feeder.
At the October all the perch were around 6 inches big and fat, they cleaned all the fathead minnow except the big one.
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