When I first put in my pond I bought about 50 feeder fish to just keep the
mosquitoes down. I did not have a clue what I was doing but I knew that
feeder fish had a very high mortality rate. Half of them died almost
immediately. I then found myself counting and tracking all of the survivors
and rooting for them to survive (the orange and white one with the long tail
became fairy, Mohawk was the orange with black fin, etc). Yes I named
everyone of those suckers. That was many years ago and 'blacky' is not
quite a foot long and is bright orange (I didn't know they changed color).
Mostly though I just have their offspring which seem to have a much better
survival rate. The youngsters I try to keep myself from naming but I find
that I still have favorites that I look for every day. So much for just
having 'mosquito eaters'

"Skywine" wrote in message
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The 4 inch comets that we put in our little pond about a year ago are all
about 10 inches now, and started spawning like mad when they got to about
7
inches or so. Do other people name their pond fish or am I just
eccentric??

"Randy Farnsworth" wrote in message
om...
I have a pair of comet goldfish that have outgrown their indoor tank,
so I was going to put them in my neighbor's pond. Does anyone know how
big these will grow? One person told me they can get up to 12" long in
the right environment, but that seems like a stretch (ha!) to me.

Randy Farnsworth
Author of "A Stand Yet Taken"
http://randyfarnsworth.com/