RAH - you say you have plenty of SFS already in another pond? How did you source them if you can share that and how are they doing in your caribbean water chemistry? I know they tend to like certain ph and alkalinity. If they are doing well in your other ponds then they should be fine with a little extra fertility and fish food in your 3rd pond. I feed optimal ( I mix the bluegill jr and the bluegill sizes together) and it all is cleaned up before it sinks.
They attack it with a veangence and I think it helps that they have plenty of high quality protein in their diet. I hand feed and do not have time every night so it is truly still a supplemental feed for them. I also have lots of other invertebrates, backswimmers, baby live snails (believe it or not when they pop out of momma snail they are so small that the SFS could easily get them in their mouth), lots of dragon fly larvae and other 'wigglers' in various shapes and sizes.
