When the water warms you just end the indoor fish operation and put them in the pond, never to return and start the next October with another 1000 fry. I know when breeders keep their breeding stock they keep the males separate from the females and from each other, but they are in the breeding business and you are in the raising fry business. I assume they never get mature or large enough to breed again before you stock them.

Another question, come the end of September early October how big are the TP? And are they eaten as they slow down or do you have to pull out floaters that died?

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