hello all!

a couple of days ago, I discovered my very first batch of goldfish fry! Woot!

About 2 weeks ago, I moved some of my plants from my pond into a seperate 30 gal pond, I didn't want to kill the plants from the salt I was putting in the main pond. Today, the plants were really thriving so I came to check up on them. When I moved some of the plants around, I saw these little sticks moving, they were goldfish fry LOL! I couldn't believe it at first, but there they was! They seem really healthy despite the lack of human intervention, I am so excited LOL! I will start them on some fry food soon!

I can see lots of the little ones in there, they are about 1/4 inch each, give or take a little, they are so darn cute LOL!

I am so excited! It will be fun watching these guys grow! They are common/comet fry btw!

a video of them, I had to use night shot on the cam, so the colors are a bit weird LOL!

http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p102/lo...nt=M2U00040.flv

Congrats!! You seem like a proud noew mom

Look at those pale little sticks!!!!With eyes on CONGRATULATIONS goldie fry Mom Whoooooooooooot what an exciting happening .

It looks like they are sleeping in that video- so very cute ! How many are there, can you tell?

They must have been nibbling on the pond algae, and green water spirulina, high time for some baby brine shrimp I think- they will LOVE those ,if you can get some..it is going to be a lot of fun seeing how your fry turn out. Do you know the parents or not?

Oh and An is the pond still at 0.3% salt..or have you taken that down???

congrats!!..that must have been a great surprise

The vid looks like it is from a horror movie...hmmm could it be the haunting of An's fish tank

Congrats on the fry..good luck with them

Congrats! They're so cute!

Thanks LOL! I am!



Thanks Imo! I think there is atleast 12 in there, there's prolly many more though. I will go to pet**smart tomorrow and look for some baby brine shrimps, and I will also get a packet of Hikari first bite. I have been feeding them some hard boiled yolks the past few days, and they are luving it! this is so exciting LOL!

As for the parents, I think I might know who the moms are, they are most likely Hognose, Medi, Marble, and Corble. They were all rescues that were from pet*smart last year and they grew so much! These four have not shown any stars yet, and their belly were really round. I also saw that they also lost some of their scales on their sides which might be from chasing. The dads are prolly Tangie and Rocket and maybe the choco comet. It will be interesting to see how the fry turn out!

Yep, the large pond is still at 0.3 % salt, but the pond the fry are in doen't have any salt at all




LOL it was! i was just looking at the plants, and Bamm, i saw these little sticks swimming around LOL!

haha, it was kind of scarey wasnt it LOL! The sounds and colors makes everything creepier.



Thanks!

another update of the fries, it has been 1 week since i discovered them.

This fry is huge! It's largest out of the fries i had seen in there
http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p102/lo...nt=M2U00070.flv

this little fella is eating something LOL
http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p102/lo...nt=M2U00071.flv

any idea of how old they are?

They are getting big...The one that was eating was eating a mosquitoe(sp) larve...

Update!

here are the fries, video taken on last Sunday, May 11 (21 days since discovery)

A GIANT fry! he looks like a mini common LOL! he is prolly the largest of them all in there. Notice how large he is compared to the other little stick fries LOL





another large one, lookie, colors! :thumbsup:





a stick fry, most of them look like this, they are more rounder and larger today though ;-)



that;s it for now LOL

Look at those! They are so adoreable There always seems to be a few whoppers -they have a head start in life for sure.
Congrats again An, they are really cute and I look forward to seeing more pics as they grow

thanks! i cant wait to see them in a few months LOL! it will be an interesting summer

here are some possible parents of the fry pics taken today

possible mothers:

Marble (red common)


Medi


Hognose


Buffalo


Wing


Tumie


Laces


Alesso


Possible Dads:

Tangie


tangie again


Rocket


Rubey


Crokett


Vannelynn






Vannelynn and Alesso

Your fish are so beautiful! They look so big!

And you have some calico fry, they are sooo cute!!!

thanks Annette! yay, i love shubbies lol

here are some new pics of the fry, 28 days since discovery

the big fry, he has a heart marking near his head lol







a size comparison



the medium fry





Yumm!



some smaller fry, they are getting there! that's just a strand of my dog's fur, not a worm LOL! no worries ;-)

Oh My, they are beautiful!!!!
Looks like little shubbies!

I hope to have some fry like those this summer,
I have a female shubie!

Wow, will you look at all those detailed pictures! They are lovely, An - good job! Looks like a lot of shubunkin offspring in there, so my guess is that Laces is somewhere in this mix. She is beautiful! So is your black comet. Good luck with the little ones, and keep the pics coming.