NEDOC, do you know the answer to BOCOMO's question above?
"I'd love to hear from an expert on whether RES alone will suffice for SMB or if you also need GSH or something."
I'm afraid I can't answer that yet. I had stocked FHM in my pond a year before my RES, and two years prior to my SMB, so the FHM were very abundant and had just started to decrease in numbers this fall. But my gut tells me that the pond is going to balance itself out fairly well, or about as well as you can hope for a pond and the amount of culling I'll have to do will be minimal.
