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FISH, without a doubt!Here’s a top down photo zoomed in
FISH, without a doubt!Here’s a top down photo zoomed in
Will the fish eat the babies?
Thanks for the response. I’ll leave them and see what happens. And if I am overrun, will handle it humanely and responsibly. I have a friend with an aquarium business and can ask him for help rehoming them.Nature will take care of some of them. For the rest, you can trap and cull. See if your local pet store will take some, advertise (Craigslist or a local ad), ask around to see if anyone wants them...... But whatever you do.....don’t turn them loose in area lakes or ponds (at least, not without the owners permission).
Culling is a concept that’s hard for me, but it is a fact of life, whether you do it or Mother Nature does it. I’ve never had quite that many fry at one time — that I was aware of — but still I never ended up with more than about a dozen or so survivors. Yours are so tiny now that if it was me, I would leave them alone for a while and see what attrition takes care of.
definitely a baby fishhi, can you help me identify these new inhabitants to my pond? I can’t tell if they are fish babies or tadpoles. (We have two sarasa goldfish and three koi. And plenty of frogs.) There seem to be a hundred of these guys swimming around suddenly. We caught one to inspect.
Buy a African CichlidI’m concerned I’m going to have a thousand goldfish in my pond soon. What do I need to know about population control?
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