I too have small fish in my pond. not sure where they came from

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I have a 700 gallon pond with five gold fish. One goldfish is from an aquarium and is about 7 inches long. The other 4 are feeder goldfish that survived when I put them in my pond. About a month ago I saw baby fish and just thought they were baby goldfish. Now that they are bigger I am not so sure. They are all a dark grey with a lighter belly, and when they move a certain way they kind of flash a silver color. Could there have been eggs on some of the plants I ordered for my pond? If they are goldfish when do they turn gold?
 
If there is a lake/stream/pond close by, they could have also been dropped in by accident by a passing predator. My sister has the same fish in her pond as the creak acrossed the street and seem to be some sort of striped minnow. We chalked it up as a couple of fish might have been dropped by a bird in flight.
 
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Dangerdoll said:
If there is a lake/stream/pond close by, they could have also been dropped in by accident by a passing predator. My sister has the same fish in her pond as the creak acrossed the street and seem to be some sort of striped minnow. We chalked it up as a couple of fish might have been dropped by a bird in flight.
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Happens all the time. Also, fish eggs are excreated by shore birds and some survive this as well.

It's pretty common, depending on geographic location, for a newly formed water body to have fish within a year.

The place I work at had a recent rock slide near a hill top (no water present from a higher location except via rain wash) and when we went to inspect it for stability a little over a year later, there was a viable population of perch present!!! All baby's
 
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ok-the answer is!!!!!!!!! goldfish. My brownish silver baby fish have turned into goldfish. Several are the usual orange color, three are white,three are multi colored, and there about 6 that are just starting to change color. I sure would have bet that these fish were not baby goldfish. They sure didn't waste any time having babies. Thanks for all of your responses. I am trying to get some decent pics to show and will post them when I do.
 
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