Here’s a thought for the day- has anyone tried RE and HSB in a small pond with feeding? I’m the soon to be owner of a new tiny pond (needed backfill material elsewhere on the property) and the thought occurred to me that this combination might possibly work with some very selective harvesting. As RE don’t reproduce at the rate of BG, I also wonder if the HSB would be able to control their population despite their smaller mouths, or if everyone would gather around the feeder singing kumbaya while waiting for the pellets to drop?

Overall, about a 0.1 acre pond. Goal would be to go out a couple times per year and bring home a fish dinner. This is the holdover pond until I get the 2.5 acre dream pond that’s planned out, so thought I’d try to do something fun in the meanwhile!

How many would you stock, and remove at what rate? Welcoming all comments, criticisms, or other wild laboratory tests that could be tried out on this little spot.