So after sourcing baby carp from various sources, I finally had what I desired; lots of scaley carp! Now all I needed to do was rear them and multiply their weight 50-100 times! Easy right...? The method though, was fraught with danger and difficulties. Predation was a concern. The fish were plenty small enough for cormorants to take, along with mink. Maybe not as much of a concern if I had thousands, but that wasn't the case. I had picked around 200 fish to start with and I needed at least half to make it into the lake. My other problem was growth rates. Scaley carp by nature are slow growers - typically this is due to much of their energy going into the one thing that makes them scaleys -