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Originally Posted by jaystaler88
I've heard that hybrids like that do not reproduce, and will only live 3-5 years. Anybody heard anything like that?
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First I am not sure those are the true hybrids that was all the rage many years back. The owner did not stock hybrids. I think it is a cross between two different species of sun fish...but I am not sure. I owned a small lake around 30 years ago and put hybrids in it. They grew quite large and were very aggressive. It is a myth that hybrids will not breed. How that got started is they tried to give you only one sex of a hybrid when stocking your lake. But that proved to be hard to do. It only took a few to breed and you got what is known as an F2....Green Sunfish. It don't take long for Green Sunfish to overtake a lake. In more recent years folks have started stocking Copper Nose Gills....so they can get a large gill without getting a pond or lake full of Green Sunfish.
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