Gold Fish Eggs

[DHol90]

Hello everyone,
I hope this is the right forum and that someone will be able to help me.
Last night, I returned home from a weekend away to discover that my goldfish had laid eggs. I only have two fish and to be honest, the possibility of them laying eggs had never occurred to me because it's never happened to me or anyone I know before.
I've done a bit of reading online and I know the chances of the eggs hatching are slim but I want to give them the best chance I can. I've read that I need to separate the parents, which I'm planning to do today once I buy another tank.
Can anyone give me any additional guidance?
Thank you,
Danielle

 

[Colin_T]

Male goldfish are slimmer than females and have small white dots on their gill covers and edge of the pectoral (side) fins when in breeding condition. If you have a male and female (you obviously have at least 1 female) the eggs will probably hatch and you could get babies.

The baby fish can be fed on liquid fry food, green water, infusoria or powdered fry foods for the first few weeks, then moved onto newly hatched brineshrimp. liquid fry food, powdered fry food and brineshrimp eggs can be bought from pet shops or online. Infusoria and green water take a month or so to get going so they won't be available when the eggs hatch in 4-5 days. Get yourself some powdered fry food and make liquid fry food from boiled egg yolk (instructions on how to do this are in the link below).

Don't overfeed the babies and make sure there is an air operated filter in the tank to keep the water clean.

There's more info on culturing live foods and breeding fish at the following link.

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

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