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jdfarmer, what you're seeing here is the difference in expertise. Your longtime friend has been in the business of keeping fish alive, transporting and selling them for decades. That is an incredible feat. Something to be proud of, no doubt, and no reason to discontinue buying fish from him in the future.

What your friend isn't, is a pond manager. He grows fish, which is only part of pond management. Pond management is large scale. Lot of factors. And you happen to have stumbled upon the one place on the worldwide web where experts in this field gladly give advice on this topic for free. Esshup, Rainman and Bill Cody not only raise fish and transport fish, they make them work in an ecosystem. They know how they correspond with other species. They know how ponds like yours works.

I certainly would never discount your friend's decades of experience raising fish. But I also urge you to consider the decades of experience managing ponds providing advice to you as well. I don't want to date Scott, Rex or Bill, but I'd guess that experience total is approaching the century mark.