Thanks Bill! I now have a local source for Optimal a few miles south of my work location which is great. I'll get out my blender and make some smaller particle sizes and feed more regularly. Working on plan for structure so that even with the fox in the henhouse they won't be able to find the hens.
Right now I'm running pretty low on predators in my pond. My YP numbers are quite low as the original stockers are gone and their progeny are also thinning out. I bucket stocked a few pumpkinseed but rarely see them and they did not pull off a spawn last summer. From 1000 or more I'm down to about 10 large koi/goldfish hybrids. My pond will soon be a forage only pond which is fine for me for now till I can get my numbers back up.
Then I can stock some larger YP and maybe a few SMB as my new experiment.
Last edited by canyoncreek; 03/22/24 11:23 AM.
