Interesting that there are so few floaters. I suppose that fermentation is slow in the cool water and the turtles get most of them before they collect enough gas to float. Both last year and this, I saw a number of hawks around the pond at dying time, so I guess they get some of the ones that are not quite dead, but barely moving just under the surface. A little before that, the bass were tearing up the water in spots, after little ones, I suppose.
Even if they didn�t feed the bass, I would shell out for them again because they do such a good job on the filamentous. The boss likes that, too, because she objects to the smell of the floating clumps. As everyone else has reported, the dead Tilapia don�t collect in enough numbers to cause any detectible odor.
I still got into some moss with diving lures in shallow water, but the only floating clumps were in the rocks where even a Tilapia can�t go.
Lou
