Water Gardening: help please new pond!!!!!!!!!!!!, 1 by

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I really don't know, Melanie but since you asked, I looked into it a bit. It appears that a gradual temperature change from winter into spring will stimulate the fish to breed. Where I live, this is what we get. We don't get 'warm' days until summer. Also, even in summer we get cooler nights. In addition, it appears that I have asked for trouble by putting in that shallow beach area with lot of soft plants and lots of little rocks for the fry to hide in.
The first link is to a fairly informative page, although I totally disagree with her point about removing eggs or none will survive.! LOL If I had SEEN the eggs, I would have removed some, but I still had plenty of fish survive without removing eggs. I think the key is the amount of cover provided. .

http://www.fishpondinfo.com/gfish3.htm#bred

http://www.geocities.com/adams_goldfish101/breeding.html

This is a photo of The Lovely Lady Lily, the momma fish of all the shubunkins and possibly some of the others, too. Katy got some of Lily's fish and I can't wait to see how they turned out!