I have both HBG and BG in my pond. As expected, the HBG have grown faster and seem more aggressive than the BG. Will the HBG dominate the spawning beds and mate with the female BG creating a lot of HBG x BG? Anybody have pictures of HBG x BG? Is this a desirable cross if the goal is for just a good fishing pond?
It would seem to me mother nature has a way of species preferring their own species. Thus the hybrids and offspring of hybrids are the exception rather than the rule.
If this was not the case, a mixed species pond would tend to just become mostly hybrids over time.
It seems to me the danger of creating too many hybrids from offspring of hybrids would be minimal.
Now I have a sediment pond that produced quite a number of hybrids. But in this case there were a very small number of GSF with limited opportunity to mate with their own kind. They basically were forced to mate with either CNBG or RES.
