sean mckinney
02-11-2003, 1:24 PM
I have all of last year's goldfish fry in tanks and despite my inattention to water parameters all but 2 have done well. One I culled about a month ago, the other is the deformed fry of the title. On Friday it was belly up and not looking good. I caught it and put it in clean pond water, it recovered almost immediately and has stayed the correct way up since then. All the water in all three tanks has been changed.
Anyhow, from the side this fry has always been straight or nearly concave from dorsal to head and one of the runts but it is the first time I have taken proper notice of it. The rest are all convex from head to tail. Its head is quite wide in the eye area and it looks like it is trying to resemble a bubble eye or hammer head shark. Looking from the side niether gill flap seems to close properly.
It swims ok but slightly more sluggishly than its siblings, it is a bit of an occasional loner and doesnt feed as ravenously as them either.
I cant tell if it is happy but I dont think it is distressed. I doubt that it will ever do well and I wouldnt want it to breed but should I kill it or let nature take its course.
The fry are all within 2 months of each other and there are 7 others close to it in size but they are all bigger than it. The biggest fry, full stop, is about 3 or 4 times the length of the deformed fry but the majority are probably twice its length
Anyhow, from the side this fry has always been straight or nearly concave from dorsal to head and one of the runts but it is the first time I have taken proper notice of it. The rest are all convex from head to tail. Its head is quite wide in the eye area and it looks like it is trying to resemble a bubble eye or hammer head shark. Looking from the side niether gill flap seems to close properly.
It swims ok but slightly more sluggishly than its siblings, it is a bit of an occasional loner and doesnt feed as ravenously as them either.
I cant tell if it is happy but I dont think it is distressed. I doubt that it will ever do well and I wouldnt want it to breed but should I kill it or let nature take its course.
The fry are all within 2 months of each other and there are 7 others close to it in size but they are all bigger than it. The biggest fry, full stop, is about 3 or 4 times the length of the deformed fry but the majority are probably twice its length