Your YP will do best (fast growth) if they are pellet trained and you feed them. YP normally do not eat a lot of small minnows or a significant amount until the YP are around 5"-7" long. Then at that length the YP are eating mostly 3/4"-1.2" minnows.
By stocking BG in the pond you are basically forced to adding LMB to keep reproducing BG numbers controlled. Control of BG numbers can be done manually but it is a "lot" of frequent manual work. If it were mine I would have replaced the BG stocked with more RES and YP. this way adequate predation could be using HSB or SMB.
Rockville provides a pretty good evaluation of Zett's practices.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 06/04/15 01:41 PM.
