Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Will BG wipe out FHM?

Just had a quick question regarding stocking bluegill and fathead minnows. Will BG wipe out the FHM like the bass will? Is there any benefit to stocking FHM early with the BG? I do have two fish feeders and 50lbs of feed is a lot cheaper than 50lbs of FHM so I'm thinking there's no real point to stocking them simultaneously if the BG will just wipe them out before I introduce the bass. I'm assuming BG will likely feed on smaller baby FHM but might leave the larger ones alone?

Sawning of FHM reportedly starts at 60F and will continue to 86F. Spawning sites preferred are flat surfaces in shallow water up to 3" deep and away from larger fish that will eat the spawner FHM. When eggs hatch the best habaitat for the hatchlings is the shallow water with large amounts of some dense type of good small fish habitat such a brushy tree tops where larger fish have a more difficult time catching the slow swimming small FHM; even the adult FHM are slow swimmers.

By now under normal circumstances your small stocker BG have spawned.
With ample cover/structure for the FH the BG should not wipe them out this year. Keep feeding as that will reduce any predation on all fish. Feeding is anywhere from 4 to 8 times more energetically productive than normal foraging for BG.

GSF adults will eat all the FH fry and often over a year or 2 none (not many) will be left.