Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Thinking of starting over...help!

If you look in the archives, there is a listing of all the acronyms.

LMB, RES, BG is very easily accomplished. Once the pond is killed, and all the poison has dissapated, stock FHM. Stock as many as you can afford - 10# to 50#. Let them make little FHM for 6 months or so, then stock the other fish.

You have a feeder, feed a high quality food that is formulated for carnivores. Many here use Purina AquaMax 500 or 600.

Please realize that none of these numbers are etched in stone. As a general rule of thumb, you want to stock at least 10 BG per 1 LMB, providing that the LMB are not large enough to eat your stocker BG. If you want a typical farm pond.

If you want largere LMB (but fewer in number) stock 2-3,000 BG, 500 RES, and 100 LMB.

If you want larger BG and smaller LMB, stock 1,500 BG and 300 LMB.

Before you make any concrete decisions, look into Hybrid Striped Bass (HSB). There are other fish combinations that you might look at too.