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| I have about a 2000 gallon pond. I expanded into this pond last year from a small preformed pond and unfortunately lost all my fish from the small pond (4 shubunkins) to a racoon. I started over in the spring with 2 koi, 2 shubunkins, and 2 comets. All of the fish were about 2-3" when I bought them. I also bought some new plants to stock the larger pond.
When I was out the other morning I noticed kind of an ugly little brown fish that was about 1/2". Now they are coming out more and I have about 6 of the ugly brown fish and 1 prettier orange and white fish that is also about a 1/2". Any ideas what these are? I don't want to end up with an overstocked pond but I can't catch these things. I think I'm stuck with them until they are a little older. I have good cover on the pond with lilys and lotus so they have plenty of hiding spaces. I had some ducks earlier this year that kept coming back day over day even with my dogs chasing them out several times a day. Could that be it? Or maybe some eggs on my plants? I would think my fish are probably too young to be the parents. Any chance they will end up changing colors? I like the little orange one, but I'm not to crazy about the brown ones. Thanks for your help! |
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- Posted by terrestrial_man 9 (eyuracleo@hotmail.com) on Tue, Jul 20, 10 at 20:24
| Sounds like you have baby goldfish. Probably from eggs off the ones the raccoon ate. The plain brown ones may change into another color as they get older. The bronze colored ones are cool looking too when they are older. |
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| That would be awesome if they are from my old fish. I was upset when the racoon got them, so it would be really neat if they ended up leaving some babies behind. I wasn't specific in the post. I lost the shubunkins last fall. Could the eggs overwinter? I wasn't sure how long it took from egg to baby fish. |
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| I would bet they are last years fish, so the bad raccoon didn't get them all. I had some baby comet goldfish last year. Mom & Dad are about 4-6 inches long (exactly which two did the nasty I don't know). They were tiny critters I would have missed except for one who was 10 times the size of the others. Big guy was maybe 1/4 inch when I spied him last summer, then saw 20-30 others. I have 3 next to me right now in a fish tank that are slightly over an inch long now, but they were fed all winter long. The weird part of getting babies is I have two ponds, the larger one had fish and the smaller one just plants. The babies appeared in the small pond! I figure I must have transfered the eggs with some plants as I never saw babies in the big pond. I think any babies in the big pond got eaten by the big fish in there. |
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| Thanks so much. I'm really excited that I have some babies from my old fish. Now my concern is there will be too many. When I fed them today I saw more babies, maybe 15 total. More come out every time I feed it seems. I have some frogs living in the pond so I imagine some of the babies will probably become food, but that is probably better then having an overstocked pond. If I end up with too many I will have to start searching out new homes for them. |
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| Itty bitty fishies mostly eat algae so don't worry about food so much, don't scrub the sides but do get some floating plants, I think they can either eat the roots or eat good muck off them. I know, feeding my fish is the high point of my day too. I'm not saying don't get some flakes and crush it up fine for them. That's what I feed my tank goldies. I'm happy you have the kids to raise now. |
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