Originally Posted By: fish n chips
And wouldn't that make them not interested in that size gills too? Or is the thinking to let the gills get slightly bigger than the FHM, then they get hammered by larger fish?


They'll outgrow the FHM pretty quickly, and they will occupy more open water as they get older.

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