Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations the beach clean-up and Lake Georgetopia

Eric,
Extratopia will get three of the biggest female LMB I can catch from the big pond. RW has to be high or I won't use them. Then I am going to get three male LMB trying for pure FLA genetics. They will also go into Extratopia for the spawn.

I then have two choices to make again. Choice one: Leave the spawn in Extratopia and grow them out over the summer and see how they do. If I go this way, I know that for the first week or so I will need to add really small food for them. After that, they should be able to eat the FHM's and other fry.

Choice two: Catch all the fry and release them in the big pond in the shallow end and let them survive on their own. The good thing here is the big pond is mature enough that it contains all the food they will need. But I would not know the results directly.

There are pluses and minuses to both ideas and I am still undecided as to which way I am going to go. I would love to hear your thoughts and the thoughts of others who may have tried this in the past.

I still have time to decide as the Dogwoods came into bloom just this last week. In another few weeks, the Male LMB will start to make their beds and I could be too late for this experiment this year.

It is going to be interesting to see where the LMB males make their bed this year as the water level is up several feet from last year. I am curious to see if they will use the old bed areas or move to new areas at the old depths.