So excited - we've got babies!

Started by Rbritt, Jul 26 2010 08:15 PM

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#1 Rbritt

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Location:Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Posted 26 July 2010 - 08:15 PM

We just got our pond going in early May and added a few goldfish (3 comets and a shebunkin) and a couple young koi. About a month later a friend brought me two more comets from her pond as a "pond warming present" and it helped her thin her numbers a bit too. Last week I noticed one small (~3/4") brown goldfish swimming tentatively behind the rest of my gang. This weekend I saw him again along with another smaller brown baby and two TINY calico looking babies! All I can assume is that the two gift fish were carrying eggs when I got them and we've now had two broods hatch. I'm all excited and can't stop watching them - I just hope they make it although I realize the odds might be against them (but they made it this long so I'm hopeful). Hubby's laughing at me and says soon I'll have more fish than I know what to do with before I know it and I'll be begging other people to take them.

Beth

#2 addy1

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Location:Frederick, Maryland zone 6b-7a

Posted 26 July 2010 - 08:42 PM

How neat, enjoy your babies.

Link to how to do our pond via a live feed, if it is down, it is probably because I am out there working............lol
http://www.gardenpon...0929#entry90929

Here is a link to a page full of free pond calculators: (excel spread sheet calculators)
http://www.garden-po...calculators.htm

A good read on pond water chemistry
http://users.vcnet.c...H2Oquality.html

My pond still a work in progress:
http://www.gardenpon...10-a-t5885.html
The build: pond showcase
http://www.gardenpon...pond-t8233.html

Live every day as if it is your last, enjoy it to the fullest, because one day it will sure will be.