*Journal* Raising Queen's Babies

There is a product you can buy called Stress Coat. I got it at Walmart. It's not very expensive. It's supposed to increase the slime coating on fishes' skin, prevent stress, and help with any minor scale/slime coating loss due to being caught in a net, etc. I put it in my tank when I have to net fish or do a water change. It DOES seem to help.

I honestly don't know about using it on goldfish, since I have tropical fish. I can't imagine it would hurt though, and it might help heal your fishies tail and scales. Might be worth a try?

And don't feel guilty ... accidents happen, no matter how careful we are. We all know you love your fishies and trying very hard to do the best for them.

Thank you very much Twisterdog:) Tonight I am going to the theatre and then after the movie up to wal-mart, so I will buy some stress coat. I think I seen it there before and it like only 2 bucks or something close to that. so I'll buy some and hopefully it will help my Little Guy get healing good and fast:D

I have more good news! I saved 8 more babies out of the 50 gallon. Usually I find some here and there floating by the top of the tank or near the filter and I just scoop them up. I really have no idea how many babies are actually in my baby tank, all I know is there is way more than 20 now and when they get big enough they will have to have new homes lol. It wouild be too crowded in there.

and more good news is that I will be able to take pics of them soon enough. My camera is picking them up as a brown blurry blob, which means as long as they keep getting bigger I will be able to get pics very soon:D I know there is many of you who can't wait to see pics lol.

Thats so awesome that your GF have babies! I've had gldfish for 5 years now and I've never had one have any babies!!!!!

Cool! what do GF eggs look like?

YEA!!! PICS ARE COMMING SOON!!!

Sweet!

How little guy gets better!!

Hi Everyone!

I got two pics of goldfish eggs to try and help you guys to know what they are like:) Really they are just really small round white eggs. The white eggs mean they are not fertilized by the male, and the clearish eggs are the ones that have been fertilized. Here's two pics:

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This one shows all those little white dots on the ground is the round white eggs.

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This is a fertilized egg really close up. Eggs usually always stick to things.

And I know how much everyone has been wanting to see pics of the babies...so I didn't get pics of mine because my camera doesn't see them...but I got a pic of one really close up from google and thought I'd show ya!:D

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And this is what the little babies look like:) Except a million times smaller lol.

And today my babies are still doing great! They don't need to be switched food until next tuesday. So today I went up to Pet's Unlimited to find Brine Shrimp, since that's what I am suppose to switch them to are two weeks of being hatched. And they only had Brine Shrimp Flakes and it said for Tropical Fish...well goldfish aren't tropical. So I went to the store lady to ask if they have any normal Brine Shrimp. They said that the Brine Shrimp flake should be okay and that it can be for Goldfish even though it says for tropical fish only...then to add to that they said "Your babies shouldn't even need brine shrimp...just by goldfish flakes and break them up.

I definately didn't buy any food from them. I mean babies need these certain foods because its what makes them grow, if they don't get it and I only feed them flakes, then they won't grow bigger...the store clerks surprise me sometimes :rolleyes: lol. Oh well...Wal-mart I know for sure had the right type of Brine Shrimp. So I'll go there.

Hikari brand baby goldfish food is a very good choice as well.

Thanks, I'll remember that brand:)

Just thought I would update you all on the babies!:) They are all still doing great. The other day I went out and bought some new rocks so that I could set up their tank properly. Sooo...I went through the loooong process of taking ever single baby out of the tank with a cup (there is like 40 or more babies) and putting them into a giant bucket which I had filled with their water. And then I cleaned out the tank and set it up nicely and put the chlorine out stuff in it and a nice little underground sponge filter so that the tank stays cleaner and they have constant bubbles giving them oxygen.

And then I put all the babies back in. They are all as happy as can be and love their newly decorated home:D I took some pictures of the tank and also got some pics of the babies. Don't get too excited, you can't really see them well, they are still sooo small, but I was able to pick up their little blurry blobbed bodies!:D So here are some pics of the new decorated baby tank and a few blurry babies.

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This one is the best picture I have, you can see two babies by the plant:)

And here is the tank.

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The tank water is always a little cloudy after feeding them that yucky liquid food.

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And that's all for now!

Aww there so tiny lol,

We had a giant fish tank before a long time ago,

I bought a pregnet fish and she had babies, they all died except for 2 lol.

Then there was one because one jumped out of the tank and when the other got a little bigger we moved it to the huge tank and one day my dad killed it by mistake from getting it clocked in the tank vacume --_--''

Well I was only like 10 and didn't know much about fish lol.

Can't wait to see what your look like when they get bigger! :D

Thanks very much Argranade!:D

It's going to be so much fun watching the babies grow! :D

Aww they are so cute! Congrats! How big is there tanks there in?

I just bought 3 female guppys and now I find out there .... preggy.. ahhh!

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Originally Posted by Flatcoatluver

Aww they are so cute! Congrats! How big is there tanks there in?

I just bought 3 female guppys and now I find out there .... preggy.. ahhh!

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Thanks everyone! The babies are in a 10 gallon tank right now. I think it will do them fine until they get much bigger, and then I will have to find homes for them. Oooo a pregnant Guppy! I had a pregnant guppy before, they like to get pregnant alot lol. good luck to the babies!:D Are you going to try and raise the babies?

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Originally Posted by Kalei

Thanks everyone! The babies are in a 10 gallon tank right now. I think it will do them fine until they get much bigger, and then I will have to find homes for them. Oooo a pregnant Guppy! I had a pregnant guppy before, they like to get pregnant alot lol. good luck to the babies!:D Are you going to try and raise the babies?

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A 10 gallon for right now is a good size..
Yeah I am going to try and raise them, I have a spare 55 gallon, so hopefully it will be enough, but you never know. Guppies can have 60+ fry and I have 3 pregnant guppies. :eek: