Thanks ewest a winner as always. I think mine are eating mostly live fish, they pecked at the 30% protein food pellets, but did not show the same interest as the omnivores. What was interesting was that some would take a pellet and push it,at the surface, to a remote area and then eat it. The omnivores take the food and drag in down. I stocked 2000 tilapia, 1 1/2 to 1 3/4", when the barramundi were about the same size, the tilapia are all but gone from view. We are in the hot season and tilapia breeders have little or nothing to sell until mid May, so my growth rates may slow. Interesting note: the turtles, frogs, toads, water snake and crabs have all left the pond. Even the herons have stopped coming by. I don't know if it's all interrelated,but it is interesting.
