Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
IMO two GC could after 2 years easily eliminate all your tasty GC preferred pondweeds in your half acre. After this year keep a close eye on the amount of plants present. Keep us advised about your results with those two GC once they reach 24"+. Hopefully you have added the correct amount.


It has been an unusually wet year and our water table pond never went to low pool as in past years so my visibility to the GC impact on plant life has been limited. I can say that our GC seem to have targeted the Small leaf pondweed, Potamogeton pusillus, as their preferred diet and to a lesser extent, the floating leaf pondweed. I have noted no significant impact to the hardy lilies, eel grass or marginals. Have to admit, Bill C, you have me nervous that 2 GC may be 2 too many as the impact these 2 twelve inch fish (when stocked) have had in the first year I would consider significant. Sure hope they choose FA as their next preferred food! smile


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