I am not new to the hobby but I am new to goldfish, I've had a treo for about 8 months, 1 girl 2 boys. They decided to get it on, and now I got fry. When I noticed the eggs (everywhere) the goldfish where already decimateing them, so I took 2 rocks with the most eggs and placed them in a 2.5 gal tank. Not knowing what I was doing, I used substrate from my Oscar tank and a plant. In about 3 days the eggs hatched and It's been another 3 days since. The fry are free swimming horizontaly and eating "Hikari tropic FIRST BITES" and seem to be groweing and thriveing. The water temp is about 74*f. Via a lamp above the tank, and I have a small bubble powered HOB with nylon around the intake for filtration. I've been reading up on raising fry a bit , and I noticed that most recomend that I keep a bare bottom. I was wandering...should I remove the rocks that the eggs traveled in on, and the substrate, and if so how do I best acomplish this?? Any coments would be greatly apreciated.

hi , well from what i can gather from other people just leave the rocks in
it's a place for the fry to hide and exsplore and congrats on the new fry

thanks... ...got some pics.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/tom...s/fryhaven1.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/tomiosis/fry2.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/tomiosis/fry3.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/tomiosis/fry4.jpg

Congrats on the fry!! They look great. Good luck with them and keep us posted with updates pics!!

BTW if you e-mail the pics to Koko, she will give you a breeder's award.

I tried, bit I got an error message, said I couldn't send a message to her?? PM or e-mail. neither worked.

That is just because you haven't enough posts yet to use those privileges, Vesuvan. Try Koko@kokosgoldfish.com....

congrats on your hatch! those fry look just like my guppy fry except all fish look like at that stage. what were the parent? just curious about the gene pool.

errr ummm.....the common regular kind?? Here's a pic of dad.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/tomiosis/daddy.jpg
and an updated set of fry pics at 8 days.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/tom...ry8daysold2.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/tom...ry8daysold1.jpg
I originaly thaught they where the Chinese algae eaters, cause they where acting VARRY strange, but I'm told that it is almost unheard of, like 1 in 1000, so I'm leaning torwards the golds.

It's comet and it sure has a nice luster to its scales, almost metallic.

looks like a common to me ?

ya I think just a plain old common, comets have longer fins. You should see em when the sun hits the tank....could blind a guy!

'Round here commons and commets are sold as the same thing so sorry for the mix up.

Looks like somebody got his first award...

I think the dad is very pretty (and sorry if its too girly to call him that). I adore comets and commons, and he looks so healthy. Congrats! And please post more pics if you can. I love pics of commons.