Any way, I bought 2 , within 4 months they were large enough and started breeding, in fact they grew very fast indeed, they have lilies and some other kind of plant in their pond, plus those little water snails.

One day I went out to feed them, I saw all these tiny things swimming in the water, it twigged they were baby fish not mosquito wrigglers.

I was stupid enough to not catch all of them right there and then, so I assume mum and dad ate the rest, I did catch 3.

I have them in a small box pond with air and special fry food, I also crush fish food for the 2 which are growing fast and normally, I change the water every 3 days cause the fry food stinks and clouds the water.

My problem is: I have one fry which seems to not be growing at all, if it is it is ever so slow.

I can show you a pic; I hope links are allowed, maybe the small one hatched later than the bigger ones, but it is 6 days old now and still a midget, I am wondering if I have the runt of the litter so to speak?
Little red arrow points to the midget fry.
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Please email me if you have any comments or oppinions about this i would love to her what you have to say: cheeky_elephant_katie_hates_swim@live.com

1] Goldfish do not have stomachs, so they don’t digest food in a “cnventional” way. This means that they create a lot of waste and require a lot of cleaning.

2] Goldfish, as with all fish, were taken out of the wild to be pets in a household. This means that virtually any tank will be too small for it compared to the great outdoors. The larger the tank, the happier your fish will be.

3] Any fish can live in a small tank when it’s a baby. The trick is that as it gets older, the owner has to be responsible and get it a larger tank.

Say you win a goldfish at a fair. It’s evening and you’re going home tired from spending a day of fun and games. You stick the godfish in a bowl when you get home. You go to bed. The next day, you research what to feed it, etc. You stumble upon this site and you get a bunch of angry people yelling about how to take care of goldfish. “Gee,” you think, “I didn’t know there was so much controversy.” The goldfish is fine in the bowl for a few days, but you’re going to have to give it more room to play, breathe, and be happy. Any child will tell you that the bigger room he or she has, the better. The same goes with the fish. If you plan on keeping the fish you won at the fair for a long time, proper care is needed. If you want to show your child how to take care of a living creature, you’re going to have to understand that its needs are similar to any other creature.

Bob called the previous commenters “jerks.” That’s not fair because they, like any other human being, want the truth to be known and can’t stand it when people are misguided and spread what they consider to be lies around. I’m confident that Bob feels the same way about issues that he feels passionate about, and probably reacts in a similar manner.

There are some people who believe that the “fish tank theory” [the one about a fish not outgrowing its space] was invented to make us not feel guilty about keeping fish in too-small aquariums. There are others who believe that the theory is meant as something more symoblic than literal. At this point, it doesn’t matter. If the original poster would like to keep his or her fish in a too-small aquarium, then he or she will have to suffer the consequences of sick, and bored animals. The people who think he or she is wrong have the responsibility of posting a contrary idea, taking care of their own pets in a manner befitting a living creature, and letting the public choose what they want to believe.

Thank you, my schpeal is done.