100 goldfish!

[Ruthie]

I put up flyers at our local feed stores...I have an abundance of yellow lilies and baby goldfish to rehome.  A fellow came out today and bought over 100 baby common goldies, comets and shubunkins for his new (large) pond.  I spent most of the morning catching the little guys.  I probably still have another 50 or 60 hiding in the lily pots.  They got wise to me pretty quick and headed for the far side of the pond.  I'll catch those later...the pet shop also wanted some shubunkins.  So yay!  I was worried about what to do with all these extra fish. 

(I kept most of the midnight blue colored shubunkins and all the fantails though )

[Julles]

Glad they found a home - in a POND, not an Oscar's tank!  The little stinkers are hard to catch.  There must be an easier way, and if there is, I'd like to know.

[Ruthie]

Julles...one thing that worked really well was setting a minnow trap!  My aunt had one and she gave it to me.  The fish got in and couldn't get out.  I set it over night and had about 35 fish in it this morning.  Of course, I had to catch the rest of them hard way.

[Vickie]

I use a minnow trap in the fall to help catch my mollies and platies I put in small ponds.

[SueSTx]

   Congrats on rehoming the fish.

I have about a bigillion in my tanks...too small to even catch.  I usually have a little luck with a minnow trap when they get bigger.  I wish I had fish eating nymphs or spiders.  The parents have not eaten for 2 or 3 days now...I hope they are doing some good with the fry.  Enough is enough.

[Kat]

Glad you were able to find someone to take so many & that they aren't going to be used for bait or something.  I've got several hundred sarassas, shubunkins, & comets that I need to rehome but no one in the Dallas area is interested in them.  Go figure.

[Rick]

Man, wish I was closer, could have put em in the old oscar tank 

[Julles]

My ex had luck finding homes for surplus koi by calling restaurants and hotels - Many of those places have decorative fish tanks or ponds.

[marla]

Glad you found homes for them.  We did that a couple years ago with the goldfish.  Wish I had some more shubunkins, the heron got my 2 favorites, and the biggest one died a couple years ago.  Have one nice blue one and DH came home with 2 little ones for me yesterday...they are hiding in the cattails, I think all the big fish have them pretty scared.

[Rick]

I cant believe pet shops will take that risk of buying hobbiest goldfish

[frogman3]

I have a dilemma concerning goldfish babies. About one month ago I built a 1000 gallon pond and moved a lily and Hornwort from a small preform that contained some common goldfish (feeder goldies)to my new pond went on vacation for two weeks. Of course when I returned home what do I have but 100's of babies with no predators to thin the ranks.  Since then I have built a 7000 gallon pond that I just added 6 sarassa comets. The plan is to connect the two ponds via a stream from the smaller pond but I do not want any of the babies to wash down stream. Any ideas how to prevent this? Can I give the babies away before they change color? Maybe a bluegill is the answer! They are so friendly the little buggers swim right into my hand. 

Fm3