Has anyone ever figured out what really sets off the spawning? My wife says that many of her aquarium fish are set off by water changes because the cool water is similar to Spring rains. All of my fish have been getting fat with eggs, but so far I've only seen one day where they were really actively spawning, and that was well over a month ago.
This morning I woke up to find *everybody* was chasing around the pond. We've had warm weather and cool weather, nothing atypical, however the one difference is that last night I ran a really long cycle on my sprinklers which added about 1/2 inch of cold water to the pond. Could it really be that simple to trigger the spawning? Note that where I live, we get very little rain... last year we got less than 8 inches for the entire year, so running the sprinklers is the closest the fish ever see to rain.
At least they seem to be interested in my spawning mops! I couldn't find any cheap yarn mops, so I picked up a couple shades of green and white yarn and made my own mops. They've been in the pond for several weeks, but I saw a few pairs pushing up against the mops this morning. Tonight after work I'll have to pull out the mops and see if I have anything...
This morning I woke up to find *everybody* was chasing around the pond. We've had warm weather and cool weather, nothing atypical, however the one difference is that last night I ran a really long cycle on my sprinklers which added about 1/2 inch of cold water to the pond. Could it really be that simple to trigger the spawning? Note that where I live, we get very little rain... last year we got less than 8 inches for the entire year, so running the sprinklers is the closest the fish ever see to rain.
At least they seem to be interested in my spawning mops! I couldn't find any cheap yarn mops, so I picked up a couple shades of green and white yarn and made my own mops. They've been in the pond for several weeks, but I saw a few pairs pushing up against the mops this morning. Tonight after work I'll have to pull out the mops and see if I have anything...