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My 1.25-acre BG/LMB pond is doing fine in terms of both species seeming healthy. My neighbor removes 60 BG and 12 eating-size (<14") LMB per year. My question is if adding GSH could mess things up. My interest is to help control short-lived (<3 week long) algae blooms that infrequently occur now, and as another forage species. I have lots of GSH in another pond, so I could add different sizes, but don't want to risk goofing up a good thing. There are RES in the pond as well. Thank in advance for advice.
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Have not heard that GSH eat algae like that very much (assuming you mean FA) Adding any species will change things (good or bad) to some extent. Food items GSH - FishBase https://www.fishbase.de/TrophicEco/...enus=Notemigonus&species=crysoleucas
Last edited by ewest; 02/04/22 05:20 PM.
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Link won't open. Maybe too much junk?
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Link won't open. Maybe too much junk? Maybe try it again, it worked fine for me the first time I tried.
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Works now. Looks like there are no opinions on whether adding GSH could hurt the BG or LMB? Guess its better to be safe than sorry and not add any.
Last edited by RAH; 02/05/22 08:54 AM.
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I would save them for another day - like when/if the LMB out eat the BG population.
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Snipe, what are you showing us here?
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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I believe snipe is showing what GSH are capable of doing and that is eating fry. I have kept them out of my pond for fear they will feed heavily on BG fresh hatch fry.
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Snipe, what are you showing us here? Yeah, sorry, didn't see response. GSH died with smaller GSH lodged in throat. Absolute predators..
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