goldfish culling?

frogyetta · 03-21-2005, 08:49 AM

I was thinking of getting into goldfish and eventully breeding them and they say to cull out goldfish. Do any of cull your goldfish?

garfieldnfish · 03-21-2005, 05:27 PM

Do you have a pond? Goldfish rarely if ever breed in an aquarium setting. Mostly because you have to mimick nature with weather changes and seasons (to include lighting to match the hours of natural daytime and nighttime) and that's a little hard to do. In a pond they do it just fine, but I would not attempt it in an aquarium, odds are you will never see any spawing behavior at all.

frogyetta · 03-21-2005, 05:41 PM

My mother just retiered and had a huge pond put in with a water fall, there are a dozen or so goldfish in there. I was just wondering if any1 ever culled goldfish

fishboy · 03-21-2005, 05:59 PM

I don't breed but to breeders culling is important for removing fish which are disformed or lack good color so you can continue to breed high quality fish

frogyetta · 03-27-2005, 07:40 PM

Also when you guys cull do you kill them?

**fish_doc** · 03-27-2005, 08:37 PM

Many people will have a meat eater for culling their fish. The keep a tank on the side and have their own supply of fresh food for their own fish.

03-21-2005, 08:49 AM	#1
frogyetta Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New York Posts: 56	goldfish culling? I was thinking of getting into goldfish and eventully breeding them and they say to cull out goldfish. Do any of cull your goldfish?

03-21-2005, 05:27 PM	#2
garfieldnfish Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 660	Re: goldfish culling? Do you have a pond? Goldfish rarely if ever breed in an aquarium setting. Mostly because you have to mimick nature with weather changes and seasons (to include lighting to match the hours of natural daytime and nighttime) and that's a little hard to do. In a pond they do it just fine, but I would not attempt it in an aquarium, odds are you will never see any spawing behavior at all.

03-21-2005, 05:59 PM	#4
fishboy Custom User Title Join Date: Feb 2005 Age: 17 Posts: 1,649	I don't breed but to breeders culling is important for removing fish which are disformed or lack good color so you can continue to breed high quality fish __________________ It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

03-27-2005, 08:37 PM	#6
fish_doc Advisor to Neptune (Mod) Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Illinois Age: 40 Posts: 3,878 Blog Entries: 13	Re: goldfish culling? Many people will have a meat eater for culling their fish. The keep a tank on the side and have their own supply of fresh food for their own fish. __________________ Dave (fish_doc) A World of fish

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03-21-2005, 05:41 PM	#3
frogyetta Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New York Posts: 56	My mother just retiered and had a huge pond put in with a water fall, there are a dozen or so goldfish in there. I was just wondering if any1 ever culled goldfish

03-27-2005, 07:40 PM	#5
frogyetta Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New York Posts: 56	Also when you guys cull do you kill them?

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