I miss these fish, that black(ish) one especially. Such beauties ...

Aah I see, how did they pass if you don't mind me asking?

That's a shubunkin

BenWS Showa koi didn't make from a kohaku and a hi utsuri... It's made from an extinct colored breed of koi and a carp.

spartate them after they have done spawned

Nick Parillo Glad you enjoyed it, welcome to the family!

I do love my comets, these fish provide me a great deal of peace. Thanks for watching! 😀

Do you think? I was sort of thinking that ... I ended up taking all of them out of the sump so that the eggs would be left alone. I should go check how they are doing today! Thanks for watching!

Mel Soule Thanks, out of this breeding I ended up with a single new fish. Seems it was fond of eating the others so we named it the Highlander and put it into the main tank. Thanks for watching!

He was my favorite of all these fish. I would love to find a few more with such splendid markings!

Thanks, there are quite a few things I would do differently now ... Thanks for the good suggestions!

I did and we had just over 70 babies out of it all!

I did keep the one that lived but as to what they looked like ... there are a few video updates here on them but basically they look like very tiny versions of the goldfish. A little bit like tadpoles at first but soon they started to look like little goldies. I don't have them anymore as they died when we moved half way across the country to our new home. :-( Too bad, they were some beautiful fish. Thanks for watching!

+David Currie - The very first time we found out that the goldfish had bred was cleaning an old settlement tank and floating garden bed in the aquaponics. Found a little one stuck to the drain ... Nice to hear your were swimming free!

Ikr i saw light shimmering off them in the muck. I thought they where gonna be dead, nope put up a good fight gettin them out

I would start by moving the fish out. If they get a chance they will eat up all of your eggs! If you have a nursery tank set up then it certainly wouldn't hurt to put them somewhere safe. Good luck with your eggs! :-)

Just a myth ... ;-)

JT Bear AHH I’ve been a fan for 4 years and came across this vid on my recommendation and seen six years ago and you replying to everyone a long time ago OMG

Some of those goldfish have been with me 3 years and are still going strong. No real secret to it, just playing with my aquaponic garden and got lucky with some nice strong fish. :)

Ended up with 72 I think ...

We call that one 'Blue', that is one of the original 5 fish we purchased from the Art Knaps Nursery here in town. He is easily my favorite of them all! Thanks for watching!

Glad to hear the mix was about right!

As the water gets warmer, they get more interested in breeding from what I've seen. I've been able to separate the males and females by their behaviors. Males tend to do a LOT of belly shoving and the females are the ones running like mad to escape it ... Hope that helps!

Mating can be very aggressive and sure looks like fighting the first few times you see it. 3-4 inches would be about 2 years old(ish) so they may be trying to breed but I wouldn't expect much from it. You can try separating them or just let them keep at it until they are done and see what's swimming around next week!

Pixiedust8399 Lol, I can just imagine that ...

Could of had some babies there, now you know for next time! :-)

Ice cubes?

Good luck with the babies, fry are so cute swimming around! Once you can see them anyway. :-) Thanks for watching!

+nenaj1 - Indeed they were! Thanks for watching!

+Vahagn melikyan - Good to know!

Thanks!

RIght?!! I thought for sure that there were gonna be dead fish in that bin! That's why I made this little video to ask my viewers wtf was going on. :-) Thanks for watching!

She did live through this and we had 72 fry for a while there! Thanks for checking out his old video!

Ingrid McCleary Much harder to separate the fish if they are in a pond. Perhaps you could put in somewhere she can escape the more amorous males? I don't know if she will eat the eggs or not, interesting question there. They will undoubtedly harass her until they get exhausted which can cause a great deal of damage to the female in the process. The large goldfish in my sump tank now was separated from the rest because of the damage from the males 'loving' behaviours and has only just begun to seem healed after almost a year apart. Poor girl indeed. If you are wanting to raise fish fry, then search for info on spawning mops. They are easy to make and the eggs attach to them quite easily it seems. Good luck with them!

I'll check that one out, thanks!

Oooo, window screen! That's a good idea, I think I have some in the shed out back. I'll have to look. Right now, the fish are all in the tank and it's just the eggs in the sump. They're not looking too good though ... :(

Hoping thats, the eggs aren't looking too good. Could be alot of things... but not fertilized, would be my first guess. Good luck with all(fish and eggs) of'em. :)

My goldfish fan tail is going after my calico fantail from underneath, it that spawning or fighting

I had 72 fry at one point from all this, most of them died off but there were quite a few that did hatch!

JT Bear that's so cool!!

Lol!

Thank you, I really miss those fish!

Ever since I first saw this I have been chasing one for my self have not found it .............. Yet

I was looking for confirmation really. I was pretty sure they were spawning but since my viewers often know way more about these things than I do I figured I'd just ask to be sure. Thanks for taking a loook. :-)

Good to know, I'll go change those numbers.Although, to be honest they seem to be going just as crazy in the main tank too so ...Thanks for the tip!

More females to male. 1 male to 3 females.

Good advice to seperate them once the eggs are out there, thanks!

Mackenzie Chippewa Thank you very much!

Good advice!

Really not sure, I guess it depends on who's looking after them! ;-)

JT Bear also genetics. Some fish just are more prone to things just like humans. not a thing we can do about that.

Jess Ford 2 Ya, she had a great channel. That's where I ended up getting most of my info after this happened! Thanks for checking it out!

anytime

+Alexander Gallegos - There are a few follow up videos to this. In the end I had one fry left we called 'the Highlander'. If I do this again I will most definitely get some plants first!

+JT Bear aye. checking out the channel now. i see youve inspired many. thx!

+Natureguide36 - Lol, ya ... I learned that for sure a little later on! Thanks for watching!

Thank you for the suggestion, the fry from these ending up dying off but it's something to think about for next time!

+omar halabi - Excellent info, thanks!

Perhaps that egg eating is just a koi thing then ...

Between 1 & 2 years I think ...

I can take a look ...

Oh, I think they were a couple of years old at this point. Thanks for watching!

I don't think those eggs made it. I was watching a few videos and it doesn't look good for them. At least I know they are 'mature' enough for spawning! ;)

Thanks, I did end up making some spawning mops in later years.

JT Bear good job haha I've just got 3 new common goldfish from the Columbus fair

The ones getting chased and bashed around are the females.

While I can't tell you 100% how to do it, some helpful hints I gotten say that seperating the males from the females for at least a couple weeks may help. Also, having the water temperature closer to spring or summer should encourage them to start spawning. Making spawning mops (super easy, just type it into the search bar here on YT) will help you get more eggs from the spawn as well because they prefer to spawn in lake weeds and reeds. If you can start a water flea tank before you get the fish to breed then you can supply healthy, natural foods for the fry when they do hatch, they're called daphnia or something like that I think ... Good luck Razwan!

Thanks. Is it your pond? How did you make it? My fish tank has also koi fish and double tail fish. So can i put them in bucket? I have two big buckets and also i have big water tank to store all water supply of my home. But it's useless because i have another water tank now. Tell me can i put them in bucket or in water tank, though in tank it's not good idea koi will eat all eggs. Or in fish tank will they breed?

Sadly, no. These fish have all gone to other homes now.

We ended up with 72 babies from all of this, only 1 lived but that was more from my lack of experience than anything else. Thanks for watching!

JT Bear Everyone learns over time. My one swordtail went into hiding and I thought because she was stressed so I left her alone and the next morning there were babies swimming around

Indeed we did end up with 72 at one point however only 1 of those made it to the proper tank. Nice looking fish though. :-)

+JT Bear that's awesomely

+Awesome King225 - Thanks! :-)

Thanks!

Solid advice, thanks!

I agree, IF you know how to do it properly. Thanks for watching!

Interesting indeed.

JT if you don't mind I recommend you remove those parents seperate em there are great chances of them eating those eggs and yeah update bout those Fry's wanna seriously watch them growing up ATB mate subscribed you I love this kinda channels and youtubers

Ended up with 72 babies at one point from all this!

As it turns out ... yup.

@@JTBear You should add some spawning mops and clean the dirt in the tank

+Devote mote - Next breeding attempt won't be for a long time still. Got new fish that need to grow a bit more first ...

At the end of it I got 1 from this. Nice looking goldfish though! Thanks for the feedback. :-)

You welcome

I ended up with quite a few fry from this day in the greenhouse ...

I believe it somewhat like with koi and the males have more of a torpedo shape while the females are a bit more ... round.

Jose Rivas I started off with about 70+ that hatched but only 1 made it all the way. Thanks for watching!

Yea and how is comet mom doing

Fine as far as I can tell!

Crystal Chung What seems to be the problem? Perhaps I can help ...

+Dovey Dossett - Yup, quite aggressive about it too ...

That's only 3 fish ... how can I tell if it's a comet or not?

JT Bear ok:) and yes there are only three goldfish in this video. FIRST if it's a comet, it's easy to look at its long finnage(fins) first. Notice that the tail is long and their body shape a little bit slender(I found out that fish with longer ribbon looking fins have a more slender body type but that doesn't mean it's a male). Second, comet goldfish aren't named for any single tail varieties with such two toned colors, three toned colors, color spots or other patterns patterns. They are named because their long fins resembles to the traces of a comet. Comet goldfish along with the common goldfish(as seen in your video), are ranged in many colors/patterns, even plain orange, red or plain white. The shubunkin is more of a comet, but with matted/metallic scales. Both of these scale types together are called nacreous scales. Shubunkins only have calico, and has blue color on top, black, red, and white on all parts. There are three types of shubunkins: American/Japanese shubunkins are theost noticable because their body shape and long finnage is similar to comets London shubunkins, aka short tailed comets, are comets similar to the common goldfish but with calico pattern. Bristol shubunkins are the rarest types of shubunkins because it only locates in Britain. It has very broad fins, a blunt body, and a very wide fan looking tail that shaped like a heart 💓. Now, these two fish in your video are common goldfish. Common goldfish on the other hand are oldest variety of goldfish, originate in China and are very basic fish. It's easy to tell it by their short fins, long body and short tails. In Japan, they mostly favored common goldfish with white and red pattern because the goldfish with red/white coloration are mostly appreciated. In the Americas, people used their own made up terminology of common goldfish becasuse they are "always be plain old orange". If people see a common goldfish with two or multi-toned colors , like white/red or orange/white patterns, it's wrongly classified as a "comet". As I mentioned before, they are also widely ranged in colors and patterns. You can look into my videos so that you can tell the difference between it if you like!

JT Bear en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(goldfish this is the info about a comet goldfish en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_goldfish and this is the info about the common goldfish:-) www.google.com/search?q=ワキン金魚フナ&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&prmd=imvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUguXizsfaAhWLjVkKHWdOCgAQ_AUIESgB&biw=360&bih=512　not trying to be overworked but I typed "wakin goldfish" on Google translate in Japanese then copied the translated Japanese words to get images. "Wakin" in Japanese term is a Wakin goldfish in Funa type. Both wakin goldfish and common goldfish are really confusing because the common goldfish is also the term "wakin" . But in America, we found out Wakin goldfish are a long bodied goldfish similar to the common, but with intermediate fantail.

Wow, thank you for all that detailed info! Clearly you're quite passionate on the subject and it's always great to hear from someone that actually knows what they're talking about!

JT Bear you are very welcome! Mind you I went to the trip in Japan to find the rivers and lakes to get this far on finding goldfish related fish! Quite odd to see kimbuna, onagabuna, hibuna, and herabuna(carassius fish) all together in one giant lake! Really confusing and hard to understand them but you are very pleasant to find this out! 　ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/フナ. I still translated the word "Funa" into Japanese:-).

+Halei Fish - You lost me with this one ...

+JT Bear i think he was meaning Chemicals on the Shop bought mop heads from when they make them.. Although most wont have much some are pre laced with deoderizers. Best bet would be to boil the mop heads than hang on line and let them Air dry fully. sometimes i think people over react to the word chemicals After all Water is Chemical Just about everything is :)

Ben Jay Ah, see ... that makes some sense! Thanks!

Lol, thanks!

+Halei Fish - They did get a little more than rough with all of that ...

While I can't say for certain, this behavior started once the tank began to warm up in early spring. My theory is that the warmer water got them all 'revved up' and ready to go. I've also heard that regular water changes may remove some hormone from the water and without it they are more inclined to breed as well. SolidGold has some great goldfish info, if I recall, perhaps there may be some answers on her channel? Sorry I can't be more helpful, good luck!

Really not sure, if they are acting like this then perhaps?

+Vahagn melikyan - I had to separate the males & females because the boys were getting too rough. Did some long term damage to one of the girls, almost lost her!

+SusanneAyotte - I haven't bred them again but once I get things up and running here in the new place I may give it a try. Excellent advice, thanks!

+Beccy Scully - Ya, it seems that the larger fry need to be separated from the others as well ... I lost all but one of the young to cannibalism within the fry themselves ...

Yes they eat there young all the time if not seprated from the adult gold fish after they spawned remove adults strate way ok im from perth westeren Australia

+Maria Gonzalez - Good advice, thanks for the feedback!

Yup, thanks for the feedback!

patrick jullian I did feel a little 'dirty' posting this ...

An interesting idea. I could set something up like that, I drink enough coffee that I seem to have an endless supply of those containers. I've noticed that some of the koi farms use a rope with many 'balls' of string tied all the way along it. They will place these all through the breeding tank and collect the eggs in those, but then again I've seen people just massage the fish until they 'release' into a bowl too so ... KZfaq is a funny place, and it truly shows just how many different ways a person can get the same thing done! I'm thinking I may have more to learn on this adventure ...

+Vahagn melikyan - Yup. :)

I guess it was ...

Lol!

What amazes me is that folks are still confirming it all these years later! Thanks for watching! :-)

This ended up working out just fine. At one point there were 72 little babies from this & momma lived happily for quite some time. :-)

Lovely. Glad to hear it.

Thanks!

But by the next time the go spawn remove the smallest male you'll end up with bigger fasting growing fish

I never did get a chance to breed these fish a second time but I'll keep that in mind for the next batch I get to try with!

+JulieCreepyGaming - Lol, sounds like you have interesting friends ... o.O

+JT Bear yes, theyre very interesting XD

+JulieCreepyGaming I could take a pretty good guess as to why..!

+Bartopin B okay? XD

JulieCreepyGaming :)

Yup, had 72 fry at one point from this little bit of 'fishy lovin'. Sadly only 1 survived but that was mostly errors on my part. Thanks for watching!

She ended up being okay, they were separated not too long after I made this little video.

@@JTBear aww that's good to know, greetings from england

+Ryan Zhu - Not sure ...

Solid Gold? I'll take a look, thanks!

From memory. I'll double check just to be sure. If you find a young girl with Bi-colored hair, talking about fish, you've found the right one

Yeah. Memory served. Solid Gold