i have a pond in my backyard and my fish has spond about 5 times this summer already. i was just wondering how many times a gold fish can spon. is it normal for a fish to do this more then once a year?

Goldfish can spawn up several times a year or much more as long as theyre healthy and have the nutritional supply and strength and proper conditions to trigger the spawning.Its quite normal.Just watch the fish for tattered or torn fins and make sure these dont get infected.Spawning can be rough on them physically sometimes.

I should probably also mention that if the spawnings are very close together they tend to produce less and less eggs each spawning.

I can attest to that. My goldies have spawned three time this year and each time there were less eggs. All the spawing happened within a three month period.

Since we're on the subject of spawning,my female fantail is being chased by a male common and a male comet and is full of eggs but I doubt I will raise any of the eggs or fry since it is a quite undesirable spawn.With all the other fish in there I sincerely doubt any will survive if I leave nature take its course.

Are you sure that if the comet is the daddy that a few fry could be of a fantail nature with really long fantail fins? I think that would be really pretty. I can't wait to see what my babies will be like. I am not sure who mated with who. All I know is that my females are a calico fantail and an orange ranchu. My males are a lionhead and a calico oranda. I have ruled out a lionhead/ranchu mix because all the fry developed a dorsal fin. So I suppose I might have calico oranda/calico fantail, lionhead/calico fantail, or calico oranda/ranchu mix. Of the two fry(who are three months old now), one is calico and one is still a steel color.

A few of the fry may end up like that but I'd probably end up mostly with nymphs.(Fantails with a single tail).Most would have somewhat more elongated bodies than fantail but yet much shorter than comets in all likelyness.

I also think that the comet is the shorter tailed variety.He does not have long flowing fins like shubunkins or other fancier comets.I may decide to raise them anyway just to get more practice raising fry and for genetic information and most of all, sheer curiousity.I am not sure yet though.The fantail is calico and the comet is a veyr very vibrant orange.The calico is almost entirely red and black but mostly red and just a tiny bit of white.Alot of my fish are still too small to sex.Most were purchased since I set the pond up.And soem were purchased within the last week so my breeding projects wont occur until Fall of 2004 most likely.By then I will have tons of greow out and fry raising room for multiple spawns at once.As far as I am figuring my strains which I want to develop to a high point will take a minimum of 5 to 10 years to lock in the genetic coding and the characteristics I desire.Ssssh its top secret. :ph34r: lol

I think that you should raise them anyhow, seeing as a comet/fantail would be lovely; and if you got the beautiful tail with it, then you'd be all set... though perhaps that tail would come out much better if it was a male fantail and a female comet?

My fish has spawned 5 times i think this year, the latest batch i got about 100 eggs from her, and that was the largest ever batch. She started to lay eggs this year in febuary for the first time, the last batch was layed beginning of August, so they spawned over a 7 month period. God knows what this means compared to what others have said, but what ive said is totaly true.

I live in the UK and we generally dont get good weather, the temps are like britneys knickers, up and down all the time LOL but obviously things have been just right in the tank. Hopefully things will calm down now though, as i'd feel guilty leaving the eggs in the tank as theyd have no chance of surviving what so ever.

my goldfish spooned many times correct word is spawned

Lucky!

Five times? I hope my koi spawn once next year! lol

How many of the fry actually survive each time?