My Prussian Carp in my Cold water fish tank/ Giebel im Aquarium [8/8]

[JamesWaton]

Prussian carp are the original wild carp? i heard that from someone... not sure if it's true!

[linwooders]

some of them turn gold and that is how we get goldfish

[thegreenwindninja]

he looks kinda angry :|

[n03lzz]

@thegreenwindninja

Maybe he's mad at me!?

[leekchangt]

where can i get one?East Germany or Poland?

[n03lzz]

@leekchangt

I'd ask for them in angler stores, that's the best chance to get some.

[N0zProductions]

Dam i love Prussian Carp :))

[n03lzz]

First, they look boring, but they are very funny and cool.

[FaberOSK]

typical carp!he would ate the whole aquarium,

only if he could! heheh! nice fish.I never heard for a prussian carp

[n03lzz]

Yes, he would. He only thinks about what he could eat next.

[MinTrinidad]

What's the size on him ( I guess its male)

[n03lzz]

The size is ~12cm (I'm not exactly sure, the video was taken some month before and the fish is now living in my pond).

But I don't think it's a male. Prussian carps are able to reproduce from unfertilizted eggs, what is called gynogenesis.

So a female prussian carp can start to reproduce with other (male) fish of the carp family/cyprinids, but the eggs don't get fertilized by them.

[MinTrinidad]

I got to read up on gynogenesis. You are saying the Prussian carp can reproduce with other carp types but the sperm does not come from that male?

[n03lzz]

The sperm comes from other male carps, but it only starts the cleavage of cells. It does not penetrate the eggs, so there's just the dna of the mother. But this applies just for a female prussian carp and other (non-prussian) male carps. The reproduce of a male prussian carp and a female prussian carp is like all other fish.

[n03lzz]

So the juvenile prussian carps are genetically identic and clones of their mother (but of course there also exists a "real" reproduce with male prussian carps; the gynogenesis is just an alternative). That's why some populations in europe (they're not endemic) only consist of female prussian carps (and also have been started by just one female prussian carp).

[abaneyone]

Love the plants! What is the small fish at 2:10 in the video?

[n03lzz]

Thank you. The small fish is a juvenile gudgeon.

[CraftsRunes]

Wow, that fish is so cool. Love the way it eats ;]

[n03lzz]

Yes, it's always looking for something to eat on the ground, like all carps do.