On another note I have noticed I have a indeterminant number of smallmouth fingerlings in my big pond that were produced with no effort on my part. They seem to be perfect size for feed training at about 1 1/4 inches.
I'm going to do some seining of the shoreline and see if i can pick up enough to come up with 1000 smallmouth.
Very cool! Let us know how it goes.
Cecil right now I am doing 10-20% water change outs daily and the water temp only drops 2-3 degrees. I was doing bigger change outs (20-33%) daily before the bio-filter went in in early May. I have only done big water change outs (60-70%) when the tank walls need some scrubbing. One thing I should mention is that my tank is insulated so large drops in the water temp take while to rebound. So far this year I haven't seen waters temps get above 78 degrees in my tank. My SMB do seem to take pellets best when the water temps are above 72-74 degrees. The AM500 I ordered came in yesterday, I just need to pick it up.
As a novice I am really interested in hearing how your pellet training goes, keep us up to date.
