Originally Posted By: liquidsquid
Lately we have been noticing that our BCP are coming in to eat along with the yellow perch.

The YP were feed-trained originally, not the BC. Right now only the originals YP come to eat, so a lot of large 12"+ perch but no smaller, younger classes of them. The BCP however are small, clearly not the first year stocked fish. It started off as one, but now up to 6 or so coming in and mixing in with the perch.

I don't know how it happened, but our fish became pets, and now the wife and kid no longer want to fish the pond, but feed them by hand. Yes, the perch now come up to our hands to take food. I should have known better.


Unfortunately you will have to start harvesting at some point to keep the pond relatively "balanced".

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