Ten days ago, we cleared our forage pond with alum and hydrated lime. It has a good population of Gambusia and nothing else, as far as I can tell. Fish truck came by our local feed store today. I was going to get about a dozen small CC to stock in the forage pond, which is an oval about 50 feet by 40 feet, average two feet deep, four feet in the middle, probably 20k to 24k gallons. I planned to grow the CC out this summer to be large enough to put in the other ponds to replenish the population. The fish truck guy was nearly sold out, ready to go home, and handed me a bag full of the small 4-6" CC, about 33 fish as far as I could tell. I guess I will feed these until they begin to stress, then catch some out and put in the other ponds. How much to feed 33 4-6" CC initially? I'm thinking about 8 ounces of pellets per day or so. Would it grow them faster if I got some Optimal BG?
