Originally Posted by Sunil
For the most part, this is why I thought this is not that big a deal. The 'stunted' fish will spawn, and their progeny should be somewhat normal if they have good growing conditions.

Relatively new science discoveries on fish indicate that adaptive genetic change in fish can be much faster than previously thought. BG adapting to small size due to crowding and low food availability can change to that being the norm much faster than we previously understood.

On Iding BG see this with pics

https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=157117&page=1

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Last edited by ewest; 11/29/22 03:49 PM.