hello i have a pond with fancy fantails. i live in fla where one week its cold and next week its hot. i know alot about the breeding process but im stumped on one thing. does anyone know if they will breed down here in the winter? the reason i ask is because when its cold for a week and then gets warm my males get their breeding bumps and chase my famale. she also looks like she has eggs. i have a tank set up just in case for the eggs. any help on this would be great! thanx!...jewels.
2006-12-11 13:07:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
How cold does it get? Goldfish can function normally in temps as low as 60-62F. If it gets colder than that in the winter, you probably won't see much spawning activity. Keep an eye out of for it, of course, but as I say, as the temp drops, you will see less activity and you should feed less, too. As the temp warms up, the fish will 'warm up' too, wink wink.
2006-12-11 13:19:14 · answer #1 · answered by Zoe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All goldfish only breed in the spring. What happens, some fish grow larger because they have plenty of room and food. In order for pet shops to carry small goldfish in the winter months, many more baby goldfish are crowded together in a pond and not fed as much. If you see goldfish in the spring that are still grey colored, this is because they are too young to get the orange color. The winter goldfish in pet shops are stunted from being crowded and fed a lot less, and are the same age as the goldfish in the spring.
My grandmother had a outdoor pond, and every spring the cover would be removed, and the water would be changed. She always had hundreds of baby goldfish. Goldfish will eat their own eggs and fry, and the many that made it would be hiding in her lilly pads.
If you don't have plants for your goldfish to hide in, you could get mop heads and place them in the water. You might have to remove the mop heads after they lay their eggs in them. It takes the second summer for goldfish to be big enough to breed.
You are right about noticing the bumps on the males and the roundness on the females.
Because we are in Michigan and you are in Florida, your goldfish would spawn sooner the the ones up north here.
I answered this question before, so feel free to see what else I wrote.
2006-12-11 13:23:46 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, they can breed during the winter but I'm not sure that the babies will survive (the just hatched babies)just put plenty of plants in your pond for the eggs to adhere to and to hide in and maybe in the spring you'll have some new babies
2006-12-11 19:56:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the process of going cold and then warm makes them 'think' it's spring.... That's when they spawn.
It takes 2 to tango... You have to see if the females are blump and ripe.
2006-12-11 13:19:06 · answer #4 · answered by professorminh 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋