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The last couple weeks, I've noticed a few goldfish fry in my pond.
(and I did a happy dance I might add) :-) I'm quite surprised b/c this is my first attempt at a pond. (See "story" below if interested.) However, I'm wondering if the older goldfish would eat them...... Everything I've found on-line says they'll definitely eat the eggs, but will they eat the baby fish once they've hatched? Thanks, Nicole -- Life is too important to be taken seriously. - Oscar Wilde There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo How I got my pond: We purchased a home in December and the previous owner made an elevated "pond" out of cinderblocks - he only had a statuary fountain in it. Well, when we first looked at the house, there was ONE lonely goldfish in there - and no vegetation. After closing on the house and waiting for spring to see if it survived (which it did), we decided to add some "friends". The water immediately got cloudy and we feared we'd made a HUGE mistake. Well, after reading extensively on-line (as well as other sources), we made our own biofilter, calculated the pond holds roughly 550 gallons and purchased a 700 gph pump w/fountain, added plants, and tested the water (which we were thinking of draining and starting over - SO glad we read up first b/c the water was just fine - other than the algae cycle making it cloudy). Soooo, to make a very long story short, I'm elated that my goldfish are so happy in their revamped accommodations that they've actually had some babies! (We added 4 more fish to the original and he/she - haven't figured out which is which yet - was very happy to have "friends".) But I'm concerned b/c it seems there are a few fry I haven't seen in awhile - perhaps they're hiding? |
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