Thanks guys!
If you removed the opercular flap and the blue/green wavy lines on the cheek of ewest's GSF in the top pic, I think I would mis-identify it as a little SMB if I was looking down on it from above!
The GSF we commonly catch are certainly colored like the GSF in ewest's bottom pic. (And match the body features.)
However, I think they are definitely less fusiform. Maybe they are just healthy chunks of fish, or maybe they have a little BG in the bloodline?
1.) What is the correct name for the shape of a pure-strain, mature BG?
2.) Now that genetic testing is feasible for animal studies, are there instances of hybrid BG/GSF in nature that are several generations past the initial cross?
3.) I believe the consensus on Pond Boss is that stocked hybrid BG in ponds tend to revert back more towards their GSF traits. However, while there may be pure-strain BG in the pond, there are not usually GSF that were intentionally added to the pond. Do the GSF traits come out more in subsequent generations, even if the HBG are breeding only with other stocked HBG?
(There are a lot of assumptions in Question 3. I LIKE it when people on the forum point out my erroneous assumptions. If you people aren't going to correct me, then who will?)
