Thanks again Snipe. It sounds more complicated than I expected. My thoughts were, the smb and lmb spawn in or around the same water temps. And I thought some had actually spawned together naturally in the wild. So, my thinking was to retrieve some eggs from the female and then add the sperm from the smb. My biggest concern was to get good numbers of eggs. And then follow the process of incubation like it's done with lmb. Now with all the info you have come up with makes me think where am I to get hormones for one much less for two? Maybe I need to find a young whipper snapper that plans on making his living in the fish/pond business. One new graduate that's has some desire to find a nitch in the business. I learned you need to find that nitch if you are going to start and run any new business. Any of you guys out there that are willing to work smile


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