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* Make sure you make
new tank a natural spawning area with bushy natural plants, artificial fibers or spawning mops and coconut fibers, all materials that can receive
spawn. Goldfish need such props for spawning.
Size of
spawning tank: You will need at least a tank that can hold 20 gallons of water. If
fish were bigger than you would need a bigger tank.
* Now that
fish are clean and
tank is clean too, do not feed
fish anything for
next two months except some amount of live food like insect larvae,worms, and brine shrimp. This preparation will help
females develop healthy and
males, milt that is needed to fertilize
eggs.
* If
winters are too cold in your area, you can consider using a heater.
* Watch
male goldfish developing breeding tubercles that look like white pimples on their gill covers and
pectoral fins.
* Watch
females become rounder body as it fills up with roe or eggs. How do you spot
spawning moment?
* Spawning usually happens in
early morning.
* The colors of all
goldfish will look brighter then before.
* The fish would group together while swimming.
* The males will be chasing
females at random.
* Finally
active males zero in on one particular female and chase her more than before.
* The chase will intensify with
male getting aggressive and pushing against
female goldfish till she ejects her eggs. * As
eggs are out
male will fertilize them by depositing milt over
eggs.
* The eggs will fall through
water, landing on plants. They stay in
same spot till they hatch.
* The spawning may begin again after some days of rest.
Point of note: Goldfish eat their eggs. Of
10,000 eggs that are laid in one spawning session, hardly any will be left if
fish are not removed. So once
eggs are laid, move
parents back to another tank.

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