Okay guys, i really need a lot of help on this. In California, we have a "Senior Project" which is a project us 12th graders have to do to graduate high school.



I choose to do mine on breeding my Goldfish. I now need ALL the help i can get, or else i WILL NOT graduate from high school.

So first lets start off with what I have. I have One 5 inch black moor. One 5 inch Red Cap Oranda, and one 5 inch Ryukin.

They are in a 60 gallon tank with 4 filters adding up to 740 gallons per hour of filtration. It is a well established tank and has plants in it.

I feed them soaked flakes, hikari, and these goldfish "crumbles" that they seem to like...but i can not get them to eat gel food. They just wont eat it.

I am thinking i will get another fish in there...

oh yeah, there is no heater in it and i live in souther california so the water is around 68. but fluctuates a lot.



So now i need help. Tell me how. I've read things, but i need a good step by step, please help!

Please guys. I really need the help of the experts here. PLEASE!!


We can do this!

what is the purpose of your project..what are you trying to prove or unprove

Go to your fish shop, buy blackworms or some other high protein food such as freeze-dried bloodworms and start feeding them that.

When they're looking nice and fat and you have some with breeding stars, do a 50% waterchange and throw a lot of floaty waterplants in there or a spawning mop from the fish shop, don't let the tank get too cool and see what happens. You should see some chasing at the very least. If you can coincide the waterchange and plants with a thunderstorm, that might work better.

Even if they fail to spawn you might still be able to write up some possible reasons they didn't spawn and still pass your project.

You don't have to prove or disprove anything. Its not an experiment. You just have to do something that is part of a career.

Okay cool. What about progold?

Brand names tend to be non-international... so I don't know. You'll need something high in protein.

You'll also need to net off part of your tank or have a cycled tank standing by ready to keep the fry from being eaten by mum and dad.

I don't think fish breeding is a very lucrative career... especially not when goldfish are so cheap. The cost of getting one tank to spawn and grow to saleable size is so much higher than the price of any fry that make it.

I agree with yabbie...it takes a lot to raise goldfish fry...I hope you have a great senior project

Yeah I know it's expensive, but it doesnt have to be so much about the career as the project.

So you could just breed microworms? Or brineshrimp?

Breed brineshrimp?

Seamonkeys.

You can buy brineshrimp eggs at your aquarium (or toyshop) and if you can get them to adulthood and breed them, you'll have a great business selling them back to aquariums.

how is your senoir project going?

Yeah, i guess i could. but i like the goldfish idea, because 1 ive always wanted to, 2, i like a good challenge.


so its going good. Right now i'm feeding them Frozen Blood Worms, Freeze Dried Blood Worms, Freeze dried Baby Shrimp, and i'm thinking about going to get some frozen krill.

I think breeding brine shrimp will become very helpful to u once the goldfish spawned. Goldfish fry loves baby brine shrimp and it's one of the best fry food.

hah I remember those sea monkeys they were soooooooo tiny.
My brother bought kit after kit after kit and was hysterical when they all died.
He expected them to look like the cartoon add, hair... jewels...clothes.... little house.... kids.. the works.

It's no help to this thread but I had to mention it

@ Just Jayde

I am glad that your are doing well with the goldfish

RedCapMiggi, just out of curiosity, are you a Sophomore or a Junior this year? I (unfortunatly) have to do my Senior Project next year. Maybe I'll do mine on something goldfish related, too. Anyway, I was just curious.

I'm a senior. This is for this year.

Where are you guys from? I feel lucky, in my area we didn't (still don't) have to do senior projects.

nichejake, I'm from Indiana. And how are you 16 and a Senior!? Did you forget to change your profile, or something?

In California, we have to do them.


No, i turned 17 two weeks ago...

Good luck on your project
I have 3-4 more years till that 0_o

Senior Projects suck! One of my friends switched schools so she wouldn't have to do it.

oh you can handle your senior project

Mine is going pretty good!

I've been feeding blood worms, frozen blood worms, and baby shrimp.


I believe two of them are egg bound, and my male has extensive breeding stars.

yes!

Keep us updated, miggi I'm curious on how u go andling the spawning and such

agrees with d_golem

Whats you project on. What I would do is "Which type of water is easiest for a goldfish to live in?" Just an idea.

so did your fish have any luck yet?

Yeah, any luck? You haven't posted in awhile.

I think we have been abandoned.... hope the experiment went well

I think he ditched us! No, probably just busy with his fish. I hope it went well, also.