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Breeding - If You're Interested |
For anyone who is interested in breeding, especially for the first time, I suggest that you stick to the first reason. Just see if you can do it. Breeding at home is fun, and not too expensive. While it may come easily in nature, it does not come so naturally in captivity.
For your first subjects, choose Common or Comet Goldfish. The reason for this is twofold. First, the Common or Comets are some of the easiest goldfish to breed, and should give you the fewest problems. Second, to breed high-quality goldfish, you must start out with high-quality goldfish. To start out with a not-so-perfect pair of Ryunkins and think you are going to breed champions out of them is wrong. The choice of high-quality breeding fish in the marketplace is not good. Professional breeders usually keep these for themselves, to renew and replenish their own stock, in order to continue breeding themselves. Buying high-quality exotics is an extremely expensive endeavor.
What to Expect
There are two spawning results that also make one rethink breeding for high quality. First, goldfish suffer many mutations in one spawn or hatch. Fry are the postural brood of the spawning goldfish. In a hatch of thirty-five to fifty goldfish you will find many that have malformed fins or are missing fins. Others will have deformed bodies, deformed heads, or numerous other defects. So, in a batch of thirty-five to fifty, as many as one-third of the fry could be deformed or ill. Second, according to the Goldfish Society of America's Official Guide to Goldfish: "They [goldfish] have a habit of reverting back to their ancestral form, i.e., olive green colored, long bodied, single finned crucian carp.
This brings us back to the idea that if you want to breed high-quality goldfish, you need an exceptional pair to begin with, as goldfish parents tend to pass down their characteristics directly. If you breed a malformed goldfish, more than likely there will be a good number of fry that exhibit this same malformation.
For the home hobbyist there is only one real reason to breed, because it will bring pleasure to you and your family. Breeding is an exciting experience for anyone who loves being a fish, especially a goldfish, hobbyist.
So, let's begin with our pair of Common or Comet Goldfish. We have a lot to do. Not only do you need to know how goldfish spawn before you attempt this, but you also need to set up alternative tanks and learn new feeding methods.
For your first subjects, choose Common or Comet Goldfish. The reason for this is twofold. First, the Common or Comets are some of the easiest goldfish to breed, and should give you the fewest problems. Second, to breed high-quality goldfish, you must start out with high-quality goldfish. To start out with a not-so-perfect pair of Ryunkins and think you are going to breed champions out of them is wrong. The choice of high-quality breeding fish in the marketplace is not good. Professional breeders usually keep these for themselves, to renew and replenish their own stock, in order to continue breeding themselves. Buying high-quality exotics is an extremely expensive endeavor.
What to Expect
There are two spawning results that also make one rethink breeding for high quality. First, goldfish suffer many mutations in one spawn or hatch. Fry are the postural brood of the spawning goldfish. In a hatch of thirty-five to fifty goldfish you will find many that have malformed fins or are missing fins. Others will have deformed bodies, deformed heads, or numerous other defects. So, in a batch of thirty-five to fifty, as many as one-third of the fry could be deformed or ill. Second, according to the Goldfish Society of America's Official Guide to Goldfish: "They [goldfish] have a habit of reverting back to their ancestral form, i.e., olive green colored, long bodied, single finned crucian carp.
This brings us back to the idea that if you want to breed high-quality goldfish, you need an exceptional pair to begin with, as goldfish parents tend to pass down their characteristics directly. If you breed a malformed goldfish, more than likely there will be a good number of fry that exhibit this same malformation.
For the home hobbyist there is only one real reason to breed, because it will bring pleasure to you and your family. Breeding is an exciting experience for anyone who loves being a fish, especially a goldfish, hobbyist.
So, let's begin with our pair of Common or Comet Goldfish. We have a lot to do. Not only do you need to know how goldfish spawn before you attempt this, but you also need to set up alternative tanks and learn new feeding methods.
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