If you don't want to manage reproduction, consider single sex SMB or BG or whatever species you're considering. Nature seems to always find a way - I have seen my SMB create beds on clay in my main pond the last couple years. Not sure if they were successful, but they sure tried.

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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