Wildlife of the day: Baby fishies!
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stephbgWas *very* excited this afternoon to discover two baby fish in the pond. No idea yet whether they're minnows or perch, but as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leecetheartist has reported baby minnows in her pond appearing just yesterday it strikes me as more likely these are baby minnows. Statistically too, 15 minnows would stand a better chance of reproducing than 3 perch, particularly as Disco Stu was brought in for stud duties well into the season. Now I look back on my discovery of non-snail eggs on the pump housing even then I thought them more likely to be minnows.
Lives! Tiny lives!
Baby photos were attempted without much hope - these are extremely small beasties, and fast moving and under water to boot. But since when did picture quality ever deter proud grandparents?
Here are the twins:
OK, so maybe scale is a little difficult to determine. Here's one with a grown up relative:
Grown up relative being about an inch long. Try this for scale:
i.e. not very big at all.
I do hope they survive and I get to watch them grow. That was one of my greatest pleasures when the goldfish bred at my old place. There were so many eggs I brought some inside to incubate in a bowl and keep a close eye on them as they developed, and most excitingly as they developed their individual colouration.
It gives me enormous pleasure to think that I have provided an environment good enough to encourage creatures to breed. Sure, they're not exactly pandas, but it means I must be doing something right, and I intend to savour the victory. (I don't feel I can claim much of a hand in successful water snail reproduction). I look forward to Winter and the possibility of frogs :-)
leecetheartist has reported baby minnows in her pond appearing just yesterday it strikes me as more likely these are baby minnows. Statistically too, 15 minnows would stand a better chance of reproducing than 3 perch, particularly as Disco Stu was brought in for stud duties well into the season. Now I look back on my discovery of non-snail eggs on the pump housing even then I thought them more likely to be minnows.Lives! Tiny lives!
Baby photos were attempted without much hope - these are extremely small beasties, and fast moving and under water to boot. But since when did picture quality ever deter proud grandparents?
Here are the twins:
OK, so maybe scale is a little difficult to determine. Here's one with a grown up relative:
Grown up relative being about an inch long. Try this for scale:
i.e. not very big at all.
I do hope they survive and I get to watch them grow. That was one of my greatest pleasures when the goldfish bred at my old place. There were so many eggs I brought some inside to incubate in a bowl and keep a close eye on them as they developed, and most excitingly as they developed their individual colouration.
It gives me enormous pleasure to think that I have provided an environment good enough to encourage creatures to breed. Sure, they're not exactly pandas, but it means I must be doing something right, and I intend to savour the victory. (I don't feel I can claim much of a hand in successful water snail reproduction). I look forward to Winter and the possibility of frogs :-)
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Date: 2012-03-08 09:29 pm (UTC)Congratulations on your brood!
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Date: 2012-03-08 11:05 pm (UTC)My fishies never managed to breed but gosh did they get big.
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Date: 2012-03-09 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-20 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-20 10:26 pm (UTC)Around this time you might observe a bright green, almost neon tetra intensity, stripe along their sides.