Here is one thing to consider. A 3" CNBG or regular BG can not eat an AM500 pellet. Given enough time as the pellet softens they can tear it apart and will readily eat it. A 3" GSF can easily down a AM500 pellet and a HBG will be able to eat a full pellet a lot sooner than a BG or CNBG of the same relative size.
Come feeding time, assuming a person is not feeding to full satiation, which fish are going to be the most well fed?
Likely the HBG over the BG if they are in the same pond competing for the same floating feed and limited resources. Add in that GSF genes likely make the HBG even more aggressive, and they get my vote for early fast growth over a regular BG.
That is something I had been missing too. I bet you are right snrub.
I just wonder tho, in aprox six years shouldn't some of the BG be over a pound? Catch a lot just under. I wonder if the big ones need thinning? Perhaps the HBG suppress the BG growth more than one thinks.
