Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait Stocking Tilapia - please weigh in

I would like to see a study comparing growth rates in LMB under the following conditions:
- Pond stocked LMB with Tilapia as the exclusive forage source and no pellet feeding.
- Pond stocked with only LMB and Tilapia and fed pellets.
- Pond stocked with ONLY LMB, no forage fish and exclusively pellet fed.
- Pond stocked with traditional LMB/BG mix. No pellet feeding.
- Pond stocked with traditional LMB/BG mix and pellet fed.

What might be the results? Would a Tilapia only forage source potentially score similar to a pellet only food source? Would it be close enough to make economic sense to raise these two in a fish farm situation? Would we see any dramatic improvement in a pond with tilapia versus one without? What about one with both BG and Tilapia? Also, would we find a significantly diminished or increased return on pellet feeding in the presence of tilapia?

That would be quite an interesting study I think!