Originally Posted By: canyoncreek
TJ, reading through this post a few pages back, you posted a picture about your pond record and said:

"I'm guessing this is a pure BRES - if so, it's a pond record. Feedback?"

What is a pure BRES? Is that pure BGxRES vs HBGxRES? What are the features that would help us see the difference or is it something you know based on what fish are in that pond and what crosses are even possible?

Thanks


BRES is BGxRES F1 hybrid. I suspect this ID is correct as fish lacks tell tale GSF genetic traits. A HBG [BGxGSF] or GRES [GSFxRES] would exhibit GFS genetic traits like yellow margins on anal, pelvic fins, larger gape, etc. Sometimes fish can be F2, F3 etc. and can consist of various backcrosses and have multiple lepomis species genetics involved. In cases like this I'm left merely speculating what might have happened to produce such a fish.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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