Pond Informer, Articles on a keeping healthy fish {part -2)

 Thank you for coming over here, this is part 2 of 
Keeping fish healthy & learning what it takes to 
keep them healthy, So let's dive right in shall we ?

10 Things You Should Never Put in Your Pond <read

How to Protect Plants From Frost <read

Can Koi and Goldfish Really Breed Together?  <read

Should You Turn Off Pond Pumps <read

What Does a Pond Really Cost <read

Does a Backyard Pond Increase Home Value ? <read

Water Iris Pond Plant <read

10 Best Low Light Pond Plants <read

How to Clear Murky Pond Water <read

How to Cycle a Pond <read

7 Mistakes That Are Clogging Your Pond Pump <read

I would add videos on here as well but 
sometimes the videos get deleted & I have 
to find something to put in it's place so 
that's why I don't put videos on my blogs.

BUT that doesn't mean you can't copy 
paste the titles of these articles on U-tube
& see what you can find, that's just extra 
research that helps you out even more.

Well folks we covered a lot in 2 pages on 
keeping fish safe Healthy & happy, Even 
though it was all about ponds mostly BUT 
you can do almost the same thing with your 
Aquariums too you just have to use C-S ?

Common Sense, a contained body of water 
has different changes & environments they 
go through from 1 extrema to the next every
day, week, month, year, depending on where 
that container is, inside -outside & what kind 
of filter system it is running through, to what 
kind of fish are in that container of water. 😕

So that's why it's important to do all the research 
you can on everything you seen on BOTH blogs 
Yes it's time consuming & a lot to take in BUT 

If you want to have any success with fish you 
need to learn all you can about everything that 
involves water & fish environment, & habitat.

I appreciate your time, I hope I have given you 
enough to get a good start on your adventure 
of raising fish & you learned a lot about it.

Please come back again to catch up with more 
conversations about what ever it is you want 
to learn or know, I'm sure I have it on here.

Pond Informer, Articles on a keeping healthy fish {part -1}

 There's a lot to learn in fish keeping, Rather it's in a 
aquarium or in a pond no matter what the size is.

The best way to learn about how to raise & keep
fish healthy happy & safe is to learn all you can 
about keeping fish, aquariums & ponds thriving.

I'm putting together all the links on here for 
everything it takes to teach others everything that 
they need or want to learn about this subject.

I've been keeping fish for a long while on & off 
over the yrs & back B-4 internet was ever known 
I learned a lot on my own, what it took to have fish.

They need plenty of swimming space 
they need clean water & a filtration system 
they need the right type of food for their system
they need the right temperature to survive 
they need protection from predictors & critters 
they need protection from the weather if outside 
they need to have the right environment to thrive 

With all that said "YOU" have to be the 1 to give 
them what they need & able to do whatever it
takes to keep up with it every day, every week,
every mon, every year. are YOU that person ?

The 1st thing to know right off the top is how 
willing are you to raise & keep fish ?& how long.

The 2nd thing to know is WHERE & HOW you 
want to keep them, in a aquarium or in a pond ?

The 3rd thing you need to know is what breed 
of fish you want to raise, all this is a thinking 
process when it comes to keeping fish to raise.

The 4th thing you need to know is WHY do 
you want to raise fish, what's your goal in this ?
is it for enjoyment, to teach others what you 
have learned, to make a side income, WHAT.

I got into fish for the enjoyment, but as I have 
learned from it I now have changed over to 
I want to teach others what I have learned &
I want to make a side income from my fish.

I want to raise fish & grow aquatic plant's to 
sell on the side & teach others how to do it.

It's not a get rich thing that I can tell you
4-sure, but it is enjoying to do, & to learn
from as you go, & a way to meet people. 

So with that all said lets dig in & learn all 
there is to learn about keeping fish, are you 
READY ? let the fun begin.

# 1, where you going to start raising your fish ?
 Aquarium or pond ?
Aquarium fish is a good starting point so you 
can learn about what it takes to have a aquarium 
& to get to know more about the fish you have.

How To Raise Fish In A Tank < read 

Pond fish is a place to learn about the keeping
a pond rather it's big or small & the fish for 
the size pond they are going to be in all year.


# 2, what fish you going to keep ?
small breeds, medium breeds, lg breeds ? 
cold water, "No heater" or warm water ?
are they going to be salt water or fresh ?

There is a MULTI verities of fish to think 
about when it comes to what fish you want.

Lets start with the small 1st, "Hit the links"
The 21 Smallest Aquarium Fish < read 

The Best Small Fish < read 

20 Smallest Freshwater fish < read 

6 Small Pond Fish Species < read 

14 Small Pond Fish  < read 

With each of these links you have a good 
start of what you need to know about each 
fish, BUT You can do more research by 
hitting each fish "Copy -paste"  & go into 
goggle search to get more info on them.

I will like to add if you plan on keeping 
pond fish it's not good to have a OPEN 
POND in what I mean by that is to put a 
cover over it where you can keep critters 
from getting in it to eat All your fish up.

That means birds, snakes, coons, cats,
frogs, & whatever else that eat fish.

Don't put it under any trees, put enough
of a edge wall on it to keep ground run 
off from going in the pond when it rains.

Make sure you have enough plugins for 
your air pumps, your waterfall, & your 
heaters, filtration system to run at
the same time during winter months. 

Now here are some links you need to learn 
about in keeping pond fish & keeping ponds 
healthy for the fish you put in the pond.

12 Ways to Reduce pond work < read 

8 Warning Signs about your pond < read 

Why Do Goldfish Change Color < read 

Can Goldfish live without a pump ? < read 

How to Keep Pond Water Clear < read 

How to Make a Bog Filter < read 

I found some more good articles to put 
on here, but it's going to take the page a
while to load up, so I'm going to put up 
another page & maybe attach it to this 1.

Thank You for stopping by, hope you 
have learned a lot on here & have the 
best of luck raising fish, come back soon.

How to keep a pond clean with a filter system

 

These 3 photos are what is going on with having a  CLEAN HEALTHY pond 
the 1st photo is the 8ft X 3 ft pond that I will be using to put fish in, BUT 
not just any fish, a certain type of fish as a community fish pond.

The 2nd photo is the type of BOG FILTER system I'm going to be using 
BUT with "2" waterfall over flows like you see but with 2 instead of 1.

The 3rd photo you see is what the enclosed fish shelter will look like 

but with everything closed up with 3 windows & a steel door & the 

shelter will be set up just as you see this shelter is, next to my kitchen.

Why am I setting up this kind of fish shelter ? plenty of reasons 

1. So no birds, cats, dogs, bugs, snakes, coons can get in 

2. So it will stay warm during the winter seasons & cool in the 

warm seasons, being closed in with 3 windows will do a lot.

The windows will radiate heat in the winter & in the warm season 

help keep the humidity down with 2 fans going at all times &

keep the pond cool, by keeping the windows open for ventilation.

The shelter will be fully insulted, with a metal bottom floor wall 

that no rats or mice or snakes can get in, & it will have a rain 

catch container in the shelter to use for a water change system.

The floor will be clay-dirt with a good layer of gravel on top 

for drainage in case of a over flow happens which will be very 

unlikely, but just as a precaution, & it will have plenty of plugins.

So what breed of fish am I putting in this pond you ask ? well 

I'm thinking small, like white cloud minnows for 1 & & something 

that I can put in there that will go with them like, Zebra Danio's
mollies, & plenty of Cory catfish, Bottom feeder fish.

The pond will have plenty of stem plant's & so will the bog filter 

it will also have a good air system going at all times as well to 

keep plenty of aeration in the pond, as well as floating plant's.

White Cloud Mountain Minnow 101 < 👀 read 

Molly Fish < 👀 read 

Zebra Danios Care Guide < 👀 read 

Even though each 1 of these links I have on here will not 

match either 1 of each other on tank mates, but that's not 

to say it won't or can't be done, it all depends on the fish 

rather they will or can coexist with each other over time.

You start out with 10 of each at the same time & watch 

them for about a month to see how they are getting along 

& if they're not fighting each other then there's a pretty 

good chance you will have started a community pond.

With a 8 ft size pond you will have a nice little community 

pond that you can & will enjoy watching after a long day 
just hanging out watching the fish swim & interact with

each other & build a nice clutch of fry along the way.

When you get too many fish in the pond then you can 

catch a net full & have a EXTRA pond setup to put them 

in & separate all of them into smaller tanks & sell them.

That's how you can make a little side $ off the fry you 

end up with every few mons & keep your pond from 

getting over loaded with extra fish you DON'T NEED.

How to Keep a Pond Clean < 👀 read 

This explains why you have to keep a pond clean &

what methods to make it as easy as it can be to do.

It's not as hard as it sounds if you do it right, it's very 

easy to do, I do mine by using the pond pumps, I have 

a extra pond pump that I put in the pond & make 

sure it's in a basket to keep the fish from getting 

sucked in cause that's what you DON'T WANT

I put a long hose on it & turn it on, while at the 

same time I've got another pump pumping in fresh 
water from a water changing container into the pond.

By doing it this way you don't stress the fish out 
& it takes less time to clean the pond & get all the 

muck from the bottom out of the pond at the same 

time, takes like a hr or 2 to get the pond clean. 💥

I do my pond every 3-6 mons depending on how 

many fish are in the pond & how dirty it looks & how 

the fish are looking & doing, keep a calendar up so 

that way you can keep a good schedule on a it. 📅

Well that's all I have for now till next time, keep up 

with my blogs & you will learn a thing or 2 from me

 

I don't just talk about fish stuff, there's other stuff I 

write about on other pages. if your interested I can 

add my other blog pages on here for you to read.

Going to try something new with the 75 gal

I'm turning it into a solid NO FISH aquarium, yep you heard that 
I've been wanting & trying to do this for SO LONG I'm doing it.

I'm putting what fish I have in the 30 gal & setting up the 75
with all new plant's cause everything I have in plant's is covered 
with snails, so yea I'm rearranging my whole 75 to a new setup.

I'm taking what plant's I have & putting them in with the fish 
in the 30 gal & getting bran new 1's, I'll use the fish water in the 
30 gal & some easy green fertilizer every often & root tabs.

This will be my new start to a new year & see where it goes 
After I see how it goes & don't see NO SNAILS I'll be so 
SO HAPPY, Hopefully if this goes as planned I'll be happy.

Then once everything is growing good & I get my pond shelter
set up I'll start growing the plant's in the shelter to sell online 
& to the fish store I buy from, I've done a ton of research 
on this that I feel pretty confident that I can get it going.

Here are a few videos I've been watching & stuff I've looked 
into on this So this gives me time to get it all set up & going 
for next year & by 2030 "3 yrs" from now I'll be going good.

10 Aquarium Plants That NEVER Need Soil

7 Plants That Never Need Soil

Top 10 Soil-Free Aquarium Plants:

How to Grow Freshwater Aquarium Plants

Complete Guide to Aquarium Plants "Canton aquatic" 

So there is a few links that will give you something to 
work with & think about on what you want to do with 
your 75 gal aquarium as far as growing plant's in it.

 

😱 OH MY LORD !, I have never done this-TILL NOW

 For those that has or had goldfish, then you might know 
a little more then some or most of us, but if you wish to 
leave a comment, it never hurts to help others out with 
what ever info you can share is welcomed, thank you.

The photo of the stock tank I use for 9 goldfish no gravel
this stock tank is 4ft L X 3ft W X 2-1/2 ft DEEP IF FULL 
I Keep MINE About 2FT in water, so they don't jump out 
& since I NOW have a good screen over them & inside &
have better attendance to them & I get to enjoy them more.

Being I "had" my goldfish on my back deck & the temperature got over
90 Degrees & the tank water got up to 85, well I panicked & brought them inside
so that meant breaking down the tank & re-set it BACK UP AGAIN & being the 
way I have to haul water & fill tanks it takes most the day.

So when I went to go check on them there was this yellow-ish stuff
all over the matten filter I made for it about 2 weeks ago or so & 
when I seen we had a heatwave, I had to do something &

the race was on while we got a break in the temps I broke
into action & started rearranging a spot to put them.

My fish range anywhere from 4 to 8 inches, I've had them going on 2 yrs
& just like the rest of my pets their my babies & put a lot of $ in them
not to mention time & learning as I go & when I went to break the tank down 
& got to looking at what was on the filter pads & I took 1 off &  YEP 
SURE ENOUGH it's my 1st batch of goldfish eggs.

I'm not prepared to have a hatchery where I live, But being things have
away of working out somewhere down the road if you have faith in 
god almighty & that being said this was the whole Idea of raising 
goldfish on a budget & that's what I have been doing & well now 
it's moved to the NEXT LEVEL of breeding so I have a idea 
after I learn a little more about this subject for next time.

I watch a bunch of videos on goldfish & I learn  
a lot about raising goldfish, they are a awesome fish to have 
so I found this video about how to breed them, this is 
super easy when you want to make something out of it.

How To Breed Goldfish.

I have 2-110 gal stock tanks & I could start the fry in the 2nd 1
with as many as I seen, I could have saved at least a 100+ maybe 
you never know till you try right? well now I know my fish 
is old enough to breed & spawn, I'll be working on that next year.

I have what it takes to go after what I want in life & do my 
hardest to get it the best way I know how, till I get it . . . 
I'm hard headed when I set my mind to it, you can 
mark my words I'll get it done, cause God almighty 
tells me & shows me he has things working for me.

So when I say I'm going to do something I'm on it like a hot potato 
cause that's what life is all about, & being I've gotten to the point 
where my goldfish are spawning I'm TICKLED PINK about it.

I will see if what is in the stock tank will make it or not & if 

they do AWESOME POSSUM I won't have to take them out 
the next time cause I feed mine 2-3 X's  a day so they "shouldn't"

eat their eggs or fry & if they do then I'll have to be ready is all.

Breeding Goldfish And Koi in your Pond
Part 2 They've Hatched

The colors of nature in the eyes of the beholder above

Plant's & trees bushes & shrubs in wet & dry land can really 
create a yard of AWESOMENESS when you visualize it 1st
I don't start something B-4 I vision what I'm thinking about.

I love ponds & flowers & nature & the outdoors of Gods
world, I use to have 3 acres back in the 80's till 2008 came 
along & TOOK IT !! " housing market crash" look it up.

Well we ended up in the woods & on a mound of property 
that we JUST got paid off 3 months ago 65.000$ & it's now 
2022 & EVERYTHING IS OUT OF WACK with Biden pres.

So that killed us to sell the place we have & to buy another 1
as bad as we NEED to get another place at our age & health 
so I've been thinking about a few things for the future we got.

Just make some bog planters & raise fish & sell aquatic plant's 
we have our sights on a place, but right now we can't sell our
place to get it & don't have the $ in the bank & we're STUCK.

So I'm checking out some plant's that love water {fish water}
they won't need power or filters or even fish if you don't want 
fish with the plant's & living on a slopped yard helps a lot. 👍

Here are some of the water plants I'm looking at getting if I can
find them, this is a  chameleon plant look at them colors.

here is the search link for the plant 
chameleon plant (info link) < just tap it 

This is a sweet flag plant that also is bog tolerant
which would look Awesome where it can be seen 
here is the search link to this plant for a garden.
sweet flag plant < just tap it

This would be my show stopper right here, this is a 
GOURGOUSE LOOKING PLANT that loves wet
land, I love the look & big leaves around ANY POND
here is the link to learn more about it. > elephant ear taro plant


This plant comes in a verity of colors & makes a 
yard pop with colors that most wouldn't think 
about, you just have to think outside the box.
here is the info link> Tropical Water Cannas plant

Now with what plant's I've posted on here vision 
them in your yard just by making a water hole, it's  
simple with plastic containers in the ground, hidden.

Build a Bog for water plant's  < Let your vision guide 
you, let your mind wonder & let yourself go for it 
it's great to be outdoors enjoying the fresh air.

Diy bog garden < Here is a link that is straight forward 
to help you create a bog flower garden in your yard 
take a little time to learn about growing water plants.

Plain & simple to create your self a place where your 
mind can just relax & drift away with no worries in
mind & enjoy the space & time you have while you can.
Make a Bog for a Pond < take a look, you may like it.

The Fascinating Wildlife in Deep Mountain Lakes

This has the greatest shots of the underwater life any 1 could ask for 
the over head shots are just AWESOME, if I had the $ to move there 

I wouldn't waste no time & love every day.

This is also a great video to learn about how certain fish live & survive &

if you pay attention to the area the fish live like how the water looks &

what's around in the shot you see. the plants & moss, twigs branches, &

the substrate their in & vision your own wild fish to raise for food. Hum?

working on a mission

Well winter is gone & the work begins on getting the 110 gal stock tank outside 
on the back deck & set back up again from being in the cabin all year yippee ! ! !
just to let you in on what it takes to break down & set up a 110 gal stock tank 
it takes dedication hard work & MOST OF THE DAY, just emptying the tank
catching the fish & getting them in a safe container for a few hrs is a job alone.

Once that's all done & situated, then comes the real fun & that's to get what water 
that's in the tank out & put in ANOTHER container to use for the main stock tank 
that the fish will go back into once it's emptied & set back up again cause I need 
the stand it sits on, so a few hrs of getting the water out & getting the stand to put 
the stock tank on then I have to start putting the water back in from the other tank.

So while the water was sitting outside in the sun it warmed it up a little bit & I 
took what water was in the 1st tank (warm water) put it in the main tank they 
were in & it filed it 1/2 way cause the rest of the water that I took out went into 
the container the fish were in while I set their tank back up to put them back in 
once the main tank had water in it where I could put the fish in that's what I did.

I made a video on my tablet but I can't figure out how to get it to my gmail that 
I have on my computer, BUT I will figure it out & show it on here for you to 👀
cause that was the whole Idea of getting a tablet in the 1st place. But if I can't get 
it to go on my computer from the table then there's other ways of getting it done 
where there's a will there's a way as the ole saying goes so that's just how it is.

But now that I have the stock tank out I can work on the other mission I have 
on my mind & that's to rearrange my living area in the cabin where my tv &
computer is & set up the 75 gal aquarium where it will be a show tank to video
& the videos I do will go on my you tube channel & will have info about plant's 
and tanks along with all sorts of other info about fish & filtration, substrate & ?

So if your into this kind of thing your more than welcome to follow along with 
me, my you tube channel on raising fish you can hit this link to subscribe to it 
Raising goldfish on a budget < this is my you tube channel where I video what 
I have been doing with the guppies I was raising then went to goldfish to work 
with to start growing aquatic plant's to set up another guppy pond for indoors.

That's about all I got for now till I get the other mission I want to get done 
started & finished where I'll have everything done that will take a few days 
to get everything in place & going & hopefully by the time winter shows back
up again I'll have the stock tank outside wrapped around to protect it from 
freezing without having to bring them back in again, & redo it next year. 
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Alright, here I am 5-13-22 & have been really working HARD TO get the
mission at hand done, I'm about 1/2 there at this point so far & now it's GO
TIME for what's left that needs to get done & that's getting the 75 gal tank 
painted (back & ends) cause I got the diy stand made, the overhead cabinet 
done with the light attached under it, & once the tank is on the stand I'LL BE
SO SO  happy & relived it's off the floor & on the stand & ready to work on
getting the plant's in it, I'll have a video with everything I've been working on.

It's going to be a LONG DAY when I get started on getting the plants out of 
the 30 gal aquarium to go in the 75 gal aquarium so they have more water area
to grow & I got the fert tabs to put in the planter bottles to help them to grow.

This is just temporary to get the plants as big as I can & it may be till next yr
B-4 I do anything else with the rest of the mission I'm working on right now 
but for the time being I'll be working on growing aquatic plant's for part 2
of the mission ONCE I KNOW the goldfish are safe to live outside over winter.

So once I got that out of the way & the plants in place & all is GOOD I'll be 
putting the rest of my mission into action with setting up a guppy tank to get
back into them again, that's why I'm rearranging the cabin AGAIN, so I can 
have a place to put them once I get the tv-computer table in place so I can 
see just what space I have at the end of the tv-computer table on 1 wall.

I don't want any fish in the aquarium with the plants so I don't have to try &
catch them this is why I am working on them being in a tank without plant's 
cause when the plants are BIG ENOUGH & I have enough of them I'll put 
the BIGGER plant's in a 110 gal stock tank & all the guppies to be a breeding 
tank & the smaller plant's in the aquarium will be seller plant's to work with.

 

What has been going on with the goldfish ?

 

Well not much has been going on with the goldfish as much as everything else 
around the world like no tomorrow, but we won't go there either wrong blog.

I can say they have grown & I just brought them in from the outside stock tank 
& my orange & black goldfish is losing it's black & turning all orange on me.

I'm glad I have them back inside so I can keep a eye on them & watch them 
grow, they may not be old enough to breed yet but maybe I may get lucky.

But on ANOTHER note while I wait for the goldfish to get of age to breed 
I started another stock tank with the wild fish we catch to eat to clean out.

So Far the only fish that I 've been able to grow is brim & creek chubs,
I've tried catfish, perch, bass & it's not working but carp does good. hum?

That may change next year who knows, I'm not giving up cause raising 
the fish I can catch for a few months is cleaning them out from a wild 
taste to stock  pond fed with clear clean water & fed goldfish food &
freeze dried worms & shrimp, it takes a few days to convert them over 
but at some time they will start eating unless they refuse to eat at all.

Right now I've managed to keep 4-5 so far for any length of time &
growing good & I have them in a 30 gal LONG aquarium with a few 
chubs my neighbor caught for me & their all doing good together.

I may put them in a 55 gal next year, depends on how fast they will 
grow & how dirty the tank gets but I do have a carp in both tanks 
the stock tank & the 30 gal, cause they are a good bottom feeder.

I'm not going to hold you up just thought I'd drop a post about 
what's going on with the goldfish so I'll let you go till next time
Thank You for stopping by have a great safe day-evening bye 👋

Breeding Goldfish (PT 2)

Goldfish care is an exciting part of being a goldfish hobbyist, because of the
numbers choices among Goldfish varieties. Goldfish cover a wide range of
species, but all belonging to the family Carassius auratus. The Asians, such
Ask Japanese, Koreans, Chinese are the official known breeders of goldfish.

List contains brief details on what you need to know to breed goldfish as bait
#1- the gender of the goldfish is hard to determine, the sexual features of a
goldfish are only easily distinguished during spawning, the male goldfish
Tips to have breeding tubercles that appear as white pimples on the fins
And sometimes on their heads, but they are very hard to see on either place.

Goldfish should not be bred till they are at least 3 years old, the gender of the
fish is still difficult to determine until it reaches at least 8 cm in length in size
Buying a new goldfish in stores you won't be able to choose a male or female
since they are still small and even sellers don't even know which is which. 😕

Breeding goldfish is considered a long-term goal since you have to wait for
the fish to grow to proper size in age to determine the sex before you proceed
to breeding them. Breeding can be induced by the change in the temperature
of the water the goldfish are in, whether it be fish tank or a stock pond tanks.

Goldfish usually breed at 50 to 79 degrees but more often at exactly 68 degrees
You can force the fish to spawn by waiting for a more moderate temperature
The weather May trigger breeding or you can create your own breeding
environment by manipulating an increase in the water temperature. 💧

The majority of goldfish breeders keep more male goldfish in tanks than
females to ensure greater success in the breeding process ratio is 2 to 1🐟
You should bear in mind the East goldfish needs 15 gallons of water space
It's not advisable to overcrowd a goldfish tank or pond for breeding success.

The males is game for battle when it's in spawning Chase, of the females
What's happens for several hours & only if the water conditions are right
While they are together for a few days, the female lays her eggs in batches
Containing 1000 to 1500 eggs per batch per female that the male mates.

The first batch has the highest hatching success rate once the eggs is laid
The males then spray milt all over the eggs to fertilize them. for more fish.

I'm learning as I go with this, so as time goes by I can get better at breeding
to produce more for fish bait profit from stores & people who love to fish &
with 2 fishing area's in my area & 3-4 bait stores I may be able to move them.

Being I love fishing, I have a few ideas on how to get this out to the others 👍
if I can get this going  but this is going to take time to build it where I have
plenty to sell to others, & once I get enough produced I'll be on my mission.

Being there's not a lot of info on this, I have to do all that I can do to make 
this go with what info I can get online through videos & any other outlets I
can find or what I can think of on my own, the same way I did with guppies.

Raising Goldfish on a budget "Fishing in the dark" (PT 1)

 I guess you're wondering what is this all about ? well my friend 
it's all about a little of both, raising goldfish & fishing in the dark.

So what's 1 got to do with the other you ask ? GOOD QUESTION 
well this will be a blog about raising Goldfish & fishing in the dark.

What has fishing in the dark got to do with Goldfish you ask ? well 
did you know that fishing with Goldfish are good catfish bait? yea 
& most people love fishing at night for catfish with Goldfish bait.

So here is the reason why people use Goldfish for catfish bait, color 
catfish feed more at night cause they are less detected by other fish 
& Goldfish can be seen a lot better at night & catfish love them.

Here are some facts about why anglers love using Goldfish for bait 
& you can almost guess most of the reasons but here you have a 
good list to know All the facts about the subject at hand on here.

#1 cheap: it is true that goldfish are not that expensive you sure
can you find a store that sells $3 or a dozen goldfish, it's not
exactly the cheapest option considering there are other cheaper
live bait, it is definitely affordable for most Anglers.

#2 Easy to find: just go to any tackle shop and you may not have
quite an easy time finding a great live bait. But if you just go to
a pet store or a large shopping chain, there are many types of 
Goldfish you can find. It is too easy to buy goldfish, making them
quite appealing to anglers in search of a decent live bait to use.

#3 bright attractive colors: as it was mentioned earlier goldfish come
in a variety of colors. Just makes them quite attractive and appealing to
big predators. With their enticing yellow or bright orange bodies, they
Are impossible to miss. Another thing- they offer great action when
placed on a hook, as well as those common minnow baits angler use.

#4 they last for a long time. No matter what form of stress or condition
Goldfish can handle it pretty well for the most part of it. As long as you 
keep them well-fed in the Bait Bucket, they will be good to go. Even on
a hook they can sustain stress better than Minnows do in a bucket.
Just remember to put a Air Stone in with them for the air, every 
few hours change the  water out with fresh CLEAN water. 

It is legal to use goldfish as bait in Arizona, Alabama, Indiana,
Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. in West Virginia
You can use goldfish as long as they are dead Pennsylvania is subject
to a minimum fine of $120 if your caught using goldfish as bait.

Here are a list of states that is illegal to use goldfish as bait.
Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky,
Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Wyoming.

What fish eat Goldfish as bait? Bass large and small, catfish, crappie,
Trout, walleye,

Not only do Goldfish make a good bait, but is a easy fish to raise too 
They are a prolific spawning fish that is also great for bait to raise 
so what am I thinking? raising Goldfish for live bait, will it be worth 
it? not sure but sure worth a try if I can get them to spawn for me.

This is not to say it's as easy as it shows it to be, but to let you know how
It can be easy to do with just a little work & time and a lot of patience
This is another way I can breed  goldfish where do I can have plenty of fry

So there is my idea what I'm doing as far as raising goldfish for bait & Being
I live not far from a lake and a park that people like to fish in, I think this is a
Great idea to start doing to raise a little side money for fish food other things.

I have a friend it has a yard with no trees that I can put a decent-sized pond
Is, his yard which I think would be another good idea cuz I have too many trees
He is not that far from me that I can go once a week to check on them and so on.

Today's date is 11-1-20/20 and up here in Indiana, it's starting to show winter isn't
that far away. So this is my time to start planning how to do this before spring, but
During the winter season, I will start raising them in the cabin to see how it goes.

With what extra Goldfish I get from the winter season of working with them
If I have any luck at all during the winter I will take what extra goldfish I get
And I will start the new pond  over at my friend's house & see how it goes.

Because what I am looking for is a good batch of goldfish I start out with
next year, right now all I have is 5 goldfish so maybe that will be a good start to 
Get going and go from there I have them in 110 gallon stock tank for right now.

So we'll go with what we got see how it does I have another Pond tank outside
That is a triangle shape which is actually a tub that I can use for the five
goldfish that I have and see how they do after I rearrange things in here.

I have a lot of work to be done to get things set up to get this going right if I plan
on making this work the way I'm looking at it and what I'm planning on doing
I have 3- 55 gallon tanks that I have to empty and move out of the area I need.

So with all that said and explained on what I'm doing and why I'm doing it I'll 
Let you go for now and keep you updated on how things are going with it all, it
Won't all be on this one page there will be several pages on how things are going.

Thank you for your time & your responses thoughts and wishes I really appreciate
that, and if you have any ideas towards the subject or topic, please feel free & drop
them in the comment box below, as I could use all the help from other breeders.