A question about Fantail Goldfish spawning

[Cinnamon]

This isn't about Koi so I hope it is okay. My Fantail spawned 2 weeks ago. I was not able to save any of the eggs. The Koi acted like pirahnna after those eggs. The last 2 days I have had to get my female Fantail out of the skimmer. Yesterday as soon as I got her out the make Fantail was hot on her butt again. Do they spawn that quick? I heard they were like rabbits but 2 weeks? I think she went in the skimmer to get away from the male! !rofl

[Jackie Ramo]

I've had koi respawn a few weeks later so I'd say yes... If she needs a rest I've heard the some flow the female in a laundry basket so they can stay away from the mail but be in the pond... there are cages made for fish but I know the two of you could come up with something as a holding basket for her

[Cinnamon]

Jackie Thanks for the suggestion. I also had thought about making some kind of a net I could put around one of the plants next time she spawns to save the eggs. Heiko wanted to move her or Rem last night! I think I named these Goldfish right! Cinn and Rem! !rofl :lol:

How big are the Koi when they start spawning?

[Jackie Ramo]

The best way to save the eggs is to take them out after the spawn. Problem is they have a habit of spawning in the middle of the night and munching on the eggs right afterwards. I'd worry about Cinn getting tangled in a net at spawning time.

Koi generally spawn at 3 years old. But like plants, fish don't read the books either. :roll:

[Busy B]

DD has hers in aquariums but they are always at it! She finds more eggs in the filters that they didn't munch...growing them is another story...Out of maybe 35 eyelashes that she found, there is 3 left..from the last time. Lots of deformites but that could be going thru the filter!

[Cinnamon]

I started to buy a 10 gallon aquarium last night at Wally World just for the eggs. Then fill it with pond water. I just want to try hatching some. My neice and a couple of friends wants tghe offspring. I told Heiko this morning I could always give them my Bro in law to put on trot lines !rofl He said YOU would do that! :lol:

[Busy B]

As in ponds, bigger is better in aquariums...*wink*...buy as big as you can place somewhere...they are always good for something!

[Jackie Ramo]

Any one doing dirty dancing in the pond again????

[Cinnamon]

Jackie funny you should ask that. Yesterday morning I thought she had spawned again. Rem had stayed on her a lot. All the others were digging in the plants again. I pulled them up but couldn't find any eggs. So I wasn't for sure. Then last night Heiko couldn't find Cinn. I told him she was probably hiding from Rem. This morning before he went to work he was worried. He couldn't find her. She wasn't in the skimmer. We turned off the waterfall and found her in a deep fold nose in. She couldn't get out. So I came in the house and donned my bathing suit but Heiko had got her out as I got back. Whew! She is okay. I have a feeling what happened there. So no eggs that I could find today. It rained so I didn't have a chance to look much. I did figure out something to house the eggs though. A friend gave us a bog filter. It is about 25 gallons something like that. I thought about incorporating with the pond. I have a small little pump I can feed pond water in then have it come back to the pond. That way it wouldn't need a filter. Am I correct? I thought it was worth a try.

[Jackie Ramo]

Interesting a bog filter, can you post a pic? Fry actually do better in the pond so this would be good for them. Cinn must still have some eggs or Rem wouldn't be after her so much.

[Cinnamon]

Jackie I have a little 170 GPH pump I thought about incorporating into it. Put it into the pond then the water come out the overflow. I think it would work. I don't know if Cinn still has eggs. He has kind of left her alone this morning. She might have dropped them all. I keep going I will get some one of these days.

Here is the pic requested!

[Rembrandt]

Cinn :shock:

That's my bog filter! I was going to use it for oil changes. Has that neat little drain thing and all. :(
Oh well, I guess I can let you use it for the fish.
...man I can't keep nothing...

Just kidding you know.
Rembrandt

[Rembrandt]

G'morning Jackie :grin:
Can you believe a friend of mine gave me that? He said I could put a goldfish in it or if nothing else, stick a plant in it. It just didn't fit in with his theme anymore and he had it piled up in the back.
Hey, you know me, I'm a scavenger. !dude

Rembrandt

[Busy B]

I thought fantails liked it warm...you don't have those issues with the pond?

[Cinnamon]

Busy B my pond has never dropped below 49 F. It is deep enough. When it cools the Fantails go to the deep end while the Koi stay in the shallower end. The shallow end is 32" deep. When it dropped to 49F it was 22F in the air and that was in Dec. It dropped to that after a few nights of that temp. Around here the cold does not last but a couple of days. Right now we are sitting at above 70F and we had a cool front move through last night! :lol:

[Jackie Ramo]

Rembrandt, I've learned that fishie folks can be themost generous of people. Certainly I have been helped by strangers. A fishy friend gave me a lotus barrel, which last year (after killing the lotus) I used as a bog but the skeeters liked it a lot. Didn't think of hooking it up to the pond with a pump. Will be interested in seeing how you do this.

No rush, we still have ice here, but get it done before it melts ok? :frisbee: !rofl

[Cinnamon]

Jackie you have skeeters up there? I would have thought they would be that far North. If you ever come this way be prepared!! Skeeters are bad here. It never gets cold enough to kill them out. That is why we have several people each year die of West Nile. They don't report the survivors. Only the sick and extreme elderly die from it. We have a friend in his 30s that survived it 2 yrs ago. He was in the hospital 2 weeks but he lived! We have swamp skeeters too! They make you swell up when they bite!

[Jackie Ramo]

We got lots of skeeters up here and west nile as well. Fortunately I live too far south for black flies... nasty things and lots of times you don't see or hear them coming, not as bad as no see um's though.

I got a spider bite on my leg two days ago... and to think I gave them a nice winter home in the greenhouse... ungrateful.

[Rembrandt]

Hey Jackie,
Those little ungreatfull .......!!!!!
You take CARE of that spider bite!
Rembrandt

[Jackie Ramo]

Its fine today but 2days of itching, and why do things itch and burn more in the middle of the night... :confused: