Bottom Line. If you buy lepomis hybrids of any type, you will likely get a few females if you buy enough of them. For example, if the ratio is 97%, for each 400 sold there will on average be 12 females. Some might get 6 or 4 while others get 18 or 20. Even if purely randomly. If the fastest growers in a crop were males, the sex ratios might be different for different sized fingerlings out of the same cohort.

Hybrid lepomis are going to try to reproduce. Whether they recruit ... will depend on how many of those that swim up survive predation. Whether they recruit may depend on a number of factors. For example, what predators are present (and their numbers), macrophyte coverage, percentage female, etc.

By the time you get 7 generations of them, perhaps we shouldn't call them hybrids anymore. They are evolving into a strain that the environment and management is shaping.

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