Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Pellet feeding SMB

FWIW....

IME The FHM do not have to be "gone in a few months" if you have the correct habitat to protect them and provide spawn areas. I still have FHM after 2 years but their numbers are diminished to a point where they are not a significant source of forage. My vote goes for putting in piles of broken concrete slab, boulder piles, vegetation etc to get habitat for your forage and stocking them first. I have populations of FHM, BNM, SFS, PSC, BG and PS in my pond today but I spent BIG bucks getting habitat and populations in place "after the fact" instead of doing it right and getting the forage and their habitat in place first.

Another thing you might want to consider is we are coming into winter. No matter what forage species you stock now, they will not begin reproducing until the water warms in the spring.

...Just my 1 cent