Jeff,
Thanks for the info. Maybe it will help Teejay.
On another note I am little concerned. I put the smallies in the cage Saturday and as of today (Wednesday) not one has come up for a pellet. The pellets are semi sinking and they may be taking them on the way down, but I can't be sure due to my heavily dyed water. I'm going to try hydrated pellets and see if i can get them going. I should have some enthusiatic surface feeding as they did so the hatchery. I've always received outstanding fish from this source and I know they are feed trained.
One remote possibility is the thousands of fatheads I have in the pond are swimming into the cage and being eaten. That is the smallies prefer them over the pellets. However I would think I would get some pellet feeding.
If they don't respond in a day or two I may just liberate them into the pond. I don't really want to do that as I have some perch that are large enough to eat them. At $2.90 each they would be expensive snacks.
