Lionchu Spawn

7-1-14

Lionchu spawn. I moved the adult lionchu into the greenhouse on the first of June. The first spawn produced about 150 fish. A subsequent spawn produced 25 fish. There are a lot of dorsal fins showing up in this cross. I wonder if this is due to these fish being hybrids and there not being complete redundancy in the mutation(s) that knocked out the dorsal fin. 

SxK offspring 2013

These are from the first (and small) spawn from my SxKs. 2013

Water change in the fish room

Dinner time for the pond fish

I had to do some repairs to the pond today that required draining most of the water. It provided a great opportunity for this video. 

Pond Fish

Young of the year pond fish. These were from spawns in the spring (5/10/13) and raised in the recirculating system in the greenhouse. Today (7/29/13) I moved these fish back out to the pond to fatten up and overwinter. 

Pond Fish Fry and Nursery

Goldfish fry just after hatching

Temporary goldfish nursery

Close up of nursery

I eventually took the fry out of the 30 gallon tank used the 50 gallon stock tank that is pictured underneath. The one issue that I had with this set-up was that there was a lot of muck build-up in the fry tank. Next year, I will flow the fry tank with water coming out of the filter to hopefully reduce the muck.