Do you think there would be a market for someone (NOT ME!)to raise and export these SMB?
I think there might be a market for SMB in the 8-10" range, this would be a more suitable size to add in with an existing LMB population. Everyone I have talked to around here only has SMB availble in the 2-3" range, which makes them perfect snack size for LMB.
Wanted to bump this 2006 thread back to the top. Shorty I just had some delivered lately and the 4-6" were six dollars each and the 6-9 were nine dollars each. Plus delivery. Had it not been close to Christmas and I needed a present for myself, I would have balked at that cost.
The reason I am interested in this thread is I put ten of the larger size SMB in my 1/20 acre forage pond. Did it kind of as a lark but it got me to thinking (which is always dangerous). The pond is rock lined with crushed limestone from fines up to about 4" diameter. So the thought occoured I might get some reproduction and be able to use the forage pond as a SMB hatchery and fingerling pond.
Another thread recently got me to thinking about circulating some water from my main pond through this small forage pond and back to the main pond again to help maintain water quality if I fed the smallies quite a bit (the fish farm I got them from, Hartley of Kingman, Ks, feed their SMB). I have an area in mind within the pond I could even enhance the spawning area even more, and if I used a small pump to circulate water from the main pond might even be able to provide a slight current over the proposed area?
SMB introduced to my 1/20 acre forage pond one of the 10 SMB that went in the forage pond author to this article sounds suspiciously familiar note at the bottom of that article it is #2 of a 5 part series. The links to the rest of the articles are there and well worth reading all of them. They are reprints form Pond Boss articles.
I know SMB spawning substrate has been discussed several times since this thread. Just thought this thread was a good one to revive.
