Surpise on returning from holiday

[Neil]

I have baby fish in the pond. From six adults (no idea what mix
of sexes I have, but clearly I do have a mix) I reckon I've seen
about five or so tiddlers, about 1.5-2cm long at the moment.

Any ideas how many there might actually be? And from this sort
of size what the survival rate might be? I'm not worried about
them being eaten by the other fish at this size (I don't think),
but we''ve some biggish frogs, and I think I read somewhere
about dragon fly larvae eating small fish. Are frogs agile
enough to catch my tiddlers? and how small does a fish have to
be to be eaten by a dragon fly larva?

Neil

[Daniel Morrow]

Mid posted.


"Neil" > wrote in message
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> I have baby fish in the pond. From six adults (no idea what mix
> of sexes I have, but clearly I do have a mix) I reckon I've seen
> about five or so tiddlers, about 1.5-2cm long at the moment.
>
> Any ideas how many there might actually be? And from this sort
> of size what the survival rate might be? I'm not worried about
> them being eaten by the other fish at this size (I don't think),
> but we''ve some biggish frogs, and I think I read somewhere
> about dragon fly larvae eating small fish.

Indeed - dragon fly larvae are dangerous to fish, damsel fly larvae are
dangerous too.

Are frogs agile
> enough to catch my tiddlers? and how small does a fish have to
> be to be eaten by a dragon fly larva?

I think anything less than 1 1/2 inches is in danger this according to my 40
year old exotic aquarium fishes book that says anything the size of the fish
in the picture or smaller is in danger. HTH


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