Panda Moor Goldfish

New friend from local pet store.

Brine shrimp note

Brine shrimp culture

Salinity: the best is 30 ppt = 3g salt in 100ml water

They can survive at lower salinity (0.1~0.3 %)

Temp: 25 oC

Pearl scale goldfish diary

Goldfish hatched!

Here are daily notes:

11/23/2010: Spawning, 1st batch (11/22 full moon)

11/24: Removing bad eggs (daily from this day)

11/25: Eyes were observed (water temp 20 oC)

11/26: (19 oC)

11/27: Hatching started (18 oC)

11/28: Hatching peak (19 oC)

11/29: All hatched, about 100 hatchlings (18 oC)

11/30: Start feeding (smashed goldfish pellet), but not eating (18 oC)

12/1: Not eating (18 oC)

12/2: Not eating, mortalities (n=1 or 2) observed daily from this day (18 oC)

12/3: Brine shrimps were fed, but not eating (17 oC)

12/4: Transfer larvae into a small dish and warm up water by light (22 oC). Fish started to swim actively and eating smashed fish pellets. 63 fish left as of this day

12/5: a couple of mortalities continuously observed

12/6: (23 oC), spawning eggs, 2nd batch (12/5 new moon)

12/7: Move all the fish back to main tank. Adjust water temp at 23 oC by heater

Embryo development

My pearl scale goldfish spawned eggs on the day of full moon and now the embryos are developing. Clumps of the eggs were pulled apart the next day of spawning. Individual eggs is daily checked and bad ones (white color) are removed growing of fungus. The pic is 3 days post fertilization.

Water temperature: 18-20 oC

Diet: Hikari Goldfish Gold

Spawning: 11.23.2010

Eggs: About 150

Fish tank: Size 10 (10 gallons tank?)

Gold fish

This is one of my gold fish I have now. It's called "Pearl Scall Goldfish" in English, and "Ping-Pong Pearl" in Japanese. As the name implies, they have round shape body. The way they swim is very cute and they look as if they are "crawling" in water with their pectoral fins. Yes. They are not good at swimming (I'm pretty sure they cannot survive more than a day in wild). Anyway, they are pretty and gorgeous. They got infested with parasites (angulus), but they are recovering. Some of their scales are gone because of that. Hope their scale will re-grow.