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Fri, Apr 24, 09 at 11:48
| Just curious.
I found a couple of places here with descriptions for feeding them crushed boiled egg yoke and or brine shrimp but nothing about size. Images.Google has many pictures but I cannot figure out size. |
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| They are teeny tiny when they're first hatched. Someone described them as "eyelashes with eyes". Here is a photo of mine from last year:
Of course they grow amazingly quickly. I didn't feed mine anything special - I had more than enough algae last year! I think the most important thing is to give them plenty of places to hide so that "Mom and Dad" don't enjoy all that "sushi on the hoof"! Hope this helps |
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- Posted by albert_135 Sunset 2 or 3 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 24, 09 at 14:13
| It would seem I am not the first to ask. I find the question, either unanswered or "small" or "tiny" at several question and answer sites. With such a popular hobby someone must have a magnifying tool and a metric ruler. |
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| When they "hatch" from the egg sack, they are about 1/8" long at best and very difficult to see with the naked eye. If you look at the water about a week after you first see the roe, you should see little fry darting about the plants. A pinhead with two eyes is a good way to describe them. Their eyes are quite visible, on a body that is almost transparent. As Basil stated, they grow very fast, but try keep out of the way of the adult fish. "Horton" |
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| I never fed my fry and they grew just fine. Just actually started feeding them yesterday and they are just about officially a year old now. The pellets were too big for them last year and this year I crush the large pellets and they eat the broken pieces that I crush with a spoon and let the big fish to the pellets. They used to hang out right where the stream meets the pond and swim against the water coming in, probably catching microscopic organisms coming down from the stream I'm only guessing. |
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- Posted by albert_135 Sunset 2 or 3 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 25, 09 at 13:18
| Thanks, horton, that is the answer I was seeking as I've a conversion to metric site. |
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| This Question and answers have been very helpfull to me. I had a fish behaving or swimming very oddly, spending much of it's time head down tail up. It also looked as if it had desease or swelling of the abdomen. Two days ago it was back to nornmal and as I gazed at the pond today I saw very tiny flashes of silver in the sun light. Looking more closely I feel sure that I could see very tiny fish. So it seems my odd goldfish was pregnant. |
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- Posted by mybusyfamily6 8 (My Page) on Tue, May 25, 10 at 3:04
| I never fed mine and they grew just fine. But if you want to feed them quite a few pet stores sell food for fry.. It is a very fine powdery stuff, I used to feed it to ones in the inside tank but I never did on the pond ones. |
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