Originally posted by Theo Gallus:
More basic than "Feed what they can eat in 10-15 minutes"?
Condello has run through intermediate math for fish feeders a couple of times, which I feel works better if you are concentrating on feeding a population of known stockers. You use the number and weight of the fish, then multiple by the % of body weight they will eat each day. I think he most recently ran through it for Jody Doles within the last month or so; if you want to search for it, Jody's name would probably have fewer false hits.
One reason to adjust the number of feedings per day would be to target different species. CC can eat a lot at once, BG not nearly so much. So if you fed a lot once a day, CC would get a bigger % of the feed. Multiple smaller feedings would help the BG get a bigger % of the total feed.
Thanks Theo, I knew someone on here would come to the rescue with some facts. Sounds like the options could be quite numerous depending on what the pond owner wanted as his end result. Very similar to what we do in the show animal game.
