Has anyone ever seen their goldfish having sex? They seem completely asexual but this can't be true?

Answer 1

Goldfish spawn only in the spring time. The females will get rounder with eggs, and the males might show bumps on the gills. The fish won't lay eggs in a fish tank, as they need a better environment, such as an outdoor pond. The female goldfish will lay her eggs on plants, and the male will fertilize the eggs. After the female fish lays her eggs, she doesn't realize that these are her unhatched eggs, and will start eating the eggs that she laid.
My grandma had a lilly pond made out of cement, and the fish would lay their eggs on the leaves and stems of the plants. Most of the eggs got eaten, but always some of them would hatch, and she would have a few hundred baby goldfish.

Baby goldfish are black when they are just hatched, and gradually turn grey, and then gold. Most goldfish that you buy in stores are hatched in Florida in large ponds. In order to get little goldfish in the fall and winter months, the goldfish are stunted to keep them small by crowding them together and not feeding them as much. Goldfish are only hatched out in the spring and all of the baby goldfish that you see for sale in the winter months, are the same age as the ones that you see in the summer months.

In summary, goldfish won't lay eggs in a fish tank, but with the rare time that they do, they will eat their own eggs.
If you want to have baby goldfish, buy a horse's trough, add plants or even mop heads for them to have spawning material, and let them do their thing. If you have freezing weather, do bring them back in before the water freezes. Remove all larger goldfish after they get done breeding, so they won't eat up their fry.

Answer 2

Humans are the only animals that think about sex outside of their season. Don't imagine that its normal for the animal kingdom.
Fish fertilise their eggs outside of their body, so they don't need to have sex at all. Some species have courtship rituals, pair off and make a nest, then care for the eggs and young; but goldfish will cheerfully eat their own eggs and offspring.

Answer 3

Fish don't have sex - the female fish lays eggs and the male fish then fertalises them. This is why you have never seen your goldfish having sex and never will. This goes for other fish as well though obviously not other sea creatures such as Whales and Dolphins and Turtles etc...

Answer 4

It was late at night. I was sat on my chair numb from the pain, of sitting down to fast. Then suddenly my two fish started doing it. At first I was shocked. Then I was shocked some more. I found myself still shocked after that. I stood up in haste. "Disgusting! Man in the room. Man in the room!" I screamed in my horror as they continued their wicked and depraved mating ritual. I was horrified. Oh the things they were doing....

Answer 5

Getting a little desparate are we? However, I think in the fish world, the girl fish lays the eggs, then the boy fish spreads the fertilizer. Then they both smoke cigs.

Answer 6

They don't have sex. Females lay eggs which males then fertilize, but they rarely reach egg-laying size when kept in a small fishtank.

Answer 7

It happens outside the fish... the female lays eggs, the male spryas sperm over them

Answer 8

some fish have internal fertilisation like guppies (live bares) but gold fish have external fertilisation.
female days eggs on plants and male releases sperm.
this is called spawning.

Answer 9

the girl fishes lay eggs then the boy fishes fertilise the eggs then they hatch so they don't have sex its all done outside and away from the body.

Answer 10

Isn't it obvious that all fishes ahe both male and female?