Originally Posted By: Bill D.
Guess I can answer my own question on whether high lipid % is good. The answer is ..."it depends!" smile All a matter of what you are trying to accomplish with your feeding program. You trying to grow big and fat fish ASAP or just trying to get good growth but perhaps healthier fish.


Bill D; I think that is a correct statement. I also think it all depends on how much you feed your fish. Remember, you can supplementally feed the fish so they don't get all of their food from pellets (i.e. have to chase fish to eat) or you can feed more and make "couch potatos".

If you have LMB and BG in a pond, and want to grow large BG, you might have a hard time keeping the LMB from eating the BG food. (My LMB like eating the AM600 that I feed) But, if you want to grow large LMB and not have a lot of food going to the BG, you can feed Purina LMB pellets, which are too big for a BG to eat whole - they have to peck away at it to eat it.

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