One note IMO about CC. Each one of the in a pond takes the place of one LMB. Myself I prefer LMB compared to CC. CC can learn to be pellet hogs. The larger they get the more they eat pellets from the other fish. If you prefer CC vs LMB then keep doing what you are doing. If you like LMB more then start harvesting every CC you catch. The apparent thin body of the CC is probably due to several reasons. 1. Winter slow down of eating, 2. Lack or aggressiveness getting enough food. 3. Plus other unknown reasons.
IMO Some here would say you stocked too many CC and LMB in 0.7ac(as 145/ac) plus not enough BG to adequately feed the LMB for good growth for the long term. Lots of CC stocked means lots of food is going to be needed to keep them growing quickly. Large CC are known to also eat small fish. If it were my pond I would have omitted the CC, stocked only 35-40LMB and used 600-800 CNBG in 0.7ac. I would start removing CC on a regular basis to try and get the numbers down to 10 to maybe 20. You will soon learn that it is a whole lot easier to add CC than to remove them.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/18/25 03:01 PM.
