Assuming drab goldfish but what if GSH? - 03/16/16 02:52 AM
I have had some success trapping goldfish this week for the first time.
I assumed I would catch some breeding size GSH in the trap and would save those.
As I catch a variety of drab and some very orange goldfish I'm starting to wonder how to tell the drab goldfish from the GSH. Especially the smaller brown goldfish seem to have similar scale pattern and similar colors. I went online and outside of the slightly more 'torpedo' shaped body of the GSH, how can I be sure I'm not sacrificing my wanted GSH?
Drab goldfish from online:
GSH from the web. Some of these seem hard for me to separate out. Certainly they seem more silvery but not sure that color variations might make it harder for me to tell in my pond. I thought the deeper fork in the tail of the goldfish would help me but not so sure...
I'm assuming there are many many more drab goldfish and that there feeding behavior (essentially pellet trained) would get them more reliably in the net. Perhaps larger GSH wouldn't venture in the net or chase after pellets?
But since I'm not seeing any larger GSH, I'm wondering if my initial stocking somehow didn't make it despite no predators?
Or...I'm wondering did the bait shop really give me GSH minnows or did I get drab goldfish minnows?? what a scam that would be. Didn't I read that there is a big call for drab goldfish in the live bait business??
I'll try to get photos of what is in my trap tomorrow when it is light.
I assumed I would catch some breeding size GSH in the trap and would save those.
As I catch a variety of drab and some very orange goldfish I'm starting to wonder how to tell the drab goldfish from the GSH. Especially the smaller brown goldfish seem to have similar scale pattern and similar colors. I went online and outside of the slightly more 'torpedo' shaped body of the GSH, how can I be sure I'm not sacrificing my wanted GSH?
Drab goldfish from online:
GSH from the web. Some of these seem hard for me to separate out. Certainly they seem more silvery but not sure that color variations might make it harder for me to tell in my pond. I thought the deeper fork in the tail of the goldfish would help me but not so sure...
I'm assuming there are many many more drab goldfish and that there feeding behavior (essentially pellet trained) would get them more reliably in the net. Perhaps larger GSH wouldn't venture in the net or chase after pellets?
But since I'm not seeing any larger GSH, I'm wondering if my initial stocking somehow didn't make it despite no predators?
Or...I'm wondering did the bait shop really give me GSH minnows or did I get drab goldfish minnows?? what a scam that would be. Didn't I read that there is a big call for drab goldfish in the live bait business??
I'll try to get photos of what is in my trap tomorrow when it is light.