Originally Posted By: Drew Snyder
Regarding controlling spawning via removing egg ribbons:
My feeling is that this should be a cornerstone of the management strategy for this type of pond. Limiting YP numbers from birth would reduce their pressure on the natural forage base, allow less competition and faster growth from the start, and reduce or possibly eliminate the need for larger predator species.

What about stocking Gambusia? My understanding is that the reason they're so frequently dismissed is because they feed on fry, but that's exactly what we want in this case. The skeeterfish can tear through the eggs and outcompete most of the fry for tiny inverts. Then the few surviving YP can grow big off the bigger inverts and the Gambusia themselves.

Last edited by saint_abyssal; 06/10/19 06:38 PM.