Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Offspring Already? (update 7-3-17)

Thanks for chiming in Bob,

Do you have experience that YOY RES are sexually mature enough to spawn? I have been hesitant to say in this thread that the babies have RES genes just because my understanding, until now at least, is RES do not typically reach sexual maturity until age 2 but definitely not less than 1 year of age. I guess my assumption up to now is that sexual maturity of any species (fish or animal) is a function of age with a +/- , not necessarily a function of size. Is that wrong when it comes to fish?

Thanks,

Bill D.