I am just curious. Sunil, who PM'd you to ease back on John?


I didn't advise on this but given the circumstances I am reluctant to judge the stocking rate. I just love the circumstances here because I empathize with you John. We have a 17 acre community lake nearby that is just excessively taken over with coontail. Nearly every other BOW is plagued with naiad.

A lot of money can be spent on herbicides with little long term success. This may actually be the best (for the pond ecosystem) solution and the most cost effective one where the population is trimmed to customize the coverage of macrophytes.

John, I would love to see you make the biological control of coontail a thread in and of itself. I suspect your GC are growing maximally and this is just a unique opportunity to understand maximum GC growth and how standing weights are working with your particular situation. I also see this an opportunity (personally) to try to build an energetics model around GC and coontail. Your progress on control would be very interesting to follow. Would you consider doing this?