My personal experience was/is when Tp are stocked into a ponds prior to stocking lmb, the Tp will grow to have many offspring. In fact, my pond had so many Tp they took over the 3 feeders I had and became feeder junkie's, crowing out the Bg for the most part. Tp were everywhere and that was with me starting out with only 5 lbs of 3 to 5" Tp for the whole pond. The next year after having lmb in the pond and stocking Tp with 12 lbs per acre I only had a few Tp at years end or when winter cooled the water down. So, this year I went with 15 lbs per acre of Tp. We will wait and see what comes to the surface this coming Dec. But right now with what I have experienced, I would have to say the lmb controlled the Tp numbers in the pond
