Baby Goldfish.. shouldn't they, well be gold??

"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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Gareee© wrote:

Ok, it's been 2 and a half weeks.. how fast do goldfish grow?

Not _that_ fast.

We spotted 4 today, about 3-4 inches, one was yellow/gold with a large

I'd think they're a couple of months old.

Hmmm I wonder if all the babies we saw last month were eaten then? We never
saw these babies at all though.. very weird.


blak spot on his back and tail, and the other 3 were all still darkish in
color.

That's normal. If you are able to watch the black spotted one over the
next
couple of weeks, the spots will most likely shrink and disappear. The
other three should be fairly close behind. Some gf start to color change
at half that size, but I wouldn't expect them to take much longer than
this.

We'll be watching them closer now.


We had 5 goldfish, and almost doubled our population this year!

Where there's 9, there's 50...

Yeppers.. next time I see babies, I think we'll net them and relocate them
into the aquarium in the house.


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"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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Gareee© wrote:

Ok, it's been 2 and a half weeks.. how fast do goldfish grow?

Not _that_ fast.

We spotted 4 today, about 3-4 inches, one was yellow/gold with a large

I'd think they're a couple of months old.

Hmmm I wonder if all the babies we saw last month were eaten then? We
never saw these babies at all though.. very weird.

The fact that you don't see any little ones now, is a good argument for why
you didn't see _these_ ones when they were only an inch long. I've managed
to lose 8-12" koi in my 5000gallon pond. Losing the little ones is
easy! :-)

Where there's 9, there's 50...

Yeppers.. next time I see babies, I think we'll net them and relocate them
into the aquarium in the house.

I think you worry too much :-) If you start tank-rearing them, you'll soon
wish you had fewer.
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derek

Babies, especially from species that produce
A LOT of babies, are Mother Nature's fast food
and snack food. If they all survived we'd be
beating them off with baseball bats.

kathy :-) www.blogfromthebog.com
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