Barring any unforeseen catastrophies, I will be picking up some HSB on Saturday. I'm going back and forth over which pond to place them in. Initially, I planned to stock them into the CC pond, thinking that would give me two species on feed, and since I'm not concerned with the BG in that pond I wouldn't need to worry over the HSB bullying the BG at feeding time.

However, there are a handful of CC in there that are 7-8 lbs. My HSB will be 6-8". How aggressive are they at feeding time? Will they hold their own against the CC, or will they be bullied out like the BG are?

I considered stocking them into the HBG pond, but I'm afraid THEY will become the bullies down the road and prevent future classes of HBG from feeding.

My native BG ponds are doing well, so I don't want to introduce bullies into them either. I think it's between the CC pond, or the HBG pond.

Which would be my best option to permit acceptable growth of both species?

"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.