Originally Posted By: esshup
It all depends on water quality. Arron Mateo grew some big SMB in Phoenix, Az. I doubt your water will be warmer than his. wink

Some forage fish for SMB that won't overpopulate a pond are RES, YP, GSH, FHM. I've seen the SMB wipe out populations of those forage fish, so it's a balance that you'll have to do between predator and prey. BG fecundity is too much for SMB to control them.


I think that the springs would help with water quality. There is another spring that we used to pump water to my folks house until we got "city water". However it is pretty far from the site that I have in mind. I am guessing Arron did it with heavy aeration?

I like RES even if have to pellet train them and replace them every other year. I imagine with pellet feeding you could grow some really nice RES.

I think that TFS would be ok as far as temperature is concerned. Whats the chance of their production keeping up with the SMB? Thats if you keep the recommended number of SMB annually.

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