On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 04:13:37 GMT, "Claudia"
wrote:

===watching the pond tonight and for the first time saw some (counted 3) 1
===inch gray/brown fish darting about. Could they be anything other than
===goldfish? and when would they become "gold" or is brown the recessive color
===possible with mutt type goldfish? sorry if I am not being PC, but I am a
===newbie. :-)
===
===Outdoor 350 gal liner pond. established 2 months with what started out as
===feeder goldfish, and are now 5 - 8 inches in length. 2 plechos added
===yesterday (zone 9 - no freezing - cold for us is overnight low of 45)

A gold fish can be a olive green to a dark blackish brown when a
juvenile. Most however when they get older will change to the
traditional common color, but some are known to stay their juvenile
color. I sort of like th olive color of juvenile, but it makes them
hard to see in a pond.

I suppose if you did not introduce fish into your pond, and I think it
would be rather early for your fish to have breed, but I am no expert,
you could still have foreign inhabitants brought into your setup by
way of birds or plants.

When I first built my pond it went unstocked for close to a year, and
when I had it stocked the hatchery seined it just to see what kind of
life it had, and bigger than life it had bream already in it as well
as minnows.......which I was told came from birds such as herons, so I
would think its possible eggs could have been deposited by a visiting
bird and later hatched....
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