I knew those charts would elicit a collective groan. You should try reading the outstanding study.

Thanks DIED. Learn all you can and do it your way because it is, after all, your pond. Always , always enjoy the journey. Good advice.

All lepomis that I know of have a known propensity to stunt except RES. Control by a predator is needed to keep a balanced population. On the scale of stunting at small size among the most common lepomis I rank GSF first (worst) followed by PS second and then BG and then RES (at 0 to min.). You can grow them all to their genetic potential in the right situation. In a mixed pond it should get very interesting. I would sure like to see the results. \:\)