I put about 50 in my pond a couple of years ago and catch one occasionally. No snails to my knowledge 'cept the ones that were transferred from Cecil's pond in October. They seem to be keeping the same growing pace that the BG that were put in at the same time and size. I've seen them picking pellets off of the surface, and eating them off the bottom (<2' depth, I can't see deeper than that). They were NOT pellet trained RES, they were transferred from a local BOW.


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