goldfish spawning into homemade mops

Mops are made from the type of yarn used to knit sweaters. Don't leave the mops in there for too long as they will eventually deteriorate and clog up the pump. After a while (depending on how many eggs you want) remove the mop and place it in a seperate tank so that the eggs don't get eaten. You can go one step farther and remove the dead cloudy eggs. The cloudyness is caused by fungus eating away at the dead egg. Removing the dead eggs helps prevent the living healthy eggs from also becoming infected with fungus thus killing your entire batch. The males will push into the females to force them to release the eggs and then release their milt on to the eggs. These goldfish are left outside in an approximately 100g pond year round. When the water warms up to about 60 degrees Fahrenheit this triggers the goldfish to start producing eggs and you will see them constantly chasing each other. The pond has a waterfall covered with moss and has lettuce/other plants growing on top of it to help with biological filtration by converting fish waste to plant matter which can then be eaten or removed. The pond is also connected to Aquaponics in order to help with the bio load as the pond is way overstocked for the volume of water.

Here is a link to how you would make the spawning mops.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37262538@N03/sets/72157623786680785/

Here is a link to the Aquaponics connected to the pond:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37262538@N03/sets/72157623405271260/

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[tahmanena]

did u get many fry ?

[googolplexing]

@tahmanena I get hundreds of eggs/fry if I take the time to pick them all out and sort through and seperate the fertile eggs from the batch. I never wind up being able to grow them out though since I don't the tank space anymore. I did find a few surviving inch long goldfish in my aquaponic buckets. The eggs must have gotten sucked up by the pump and transferred to the buckets after I removed the prefilter from it because I got sick of cleaning the mulm out of it every week.

[googolplexing]

@rosyfosy The cloudy eggs most likely have fungus growing on them and should be seperated/discarded from the fertilized eggs. Fertilized eggs will be yellowish/not cloudy with a spot in them. The males push the females into something (either plants or a spawning mop) which forces the female to expel eggs and then the males release their milt onto the eggs fertilizing a large amount of them.

[microiguana]

cool.

[beckee993]

thanks, your info was very helpful, and your fish look great!

[beckee993]

thanks, ur info was very helpful, and ur fish look great! :)