@Sunil, The short answers is what appears to be bad information. Prior to discovering this forum, most of what I read online as well as my stocking person told me that you only minimally feed in the winter as fish go into a mini hibernation mode if the water temperature is below 55 degrees or so. As such, I hand fed when we had warm days during the winter per instructions.
From your post, it sounds like that information is incorrect and I should have been feeding them during the winter as well?
That is one of the reasons I want to read as much as possible here and ask questions when I have them, so I can ensure my process matches my goals.
One thing that suprised me, is that I dont see a massive amount of FHM in the pond. With that said, it is still cold here (below freezing this week for lows, highs in the 50s, but supposed to warm up to the 80s next week) and I have a very green pond (no moss or anything, just green water with low clarity) so I can only really see the edges of the pond as well as the ripples when the fish do come up to feed. I didint know how quickly the BG would eat the FHM, hence I was looking at restocking. I know from a cost standpoint, Fish Feed is better as well as produces better results 1lb for 1lb of food, however I like the idea of having natural forage food for the BG in the pond as well and didint mind spending the capital to do this. I don`t think I would stock FHM over and over again or anything, but I do want to have a decent base at least for a few years.
Last edited by SSJSayajin; 04/07/23 12:10 PM.
