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Water Gardens — White Cloud Mountain Minnows
I
HAVE a pond which has several small grey fish with red tails in
it. I was wondering what they are and how to breed them.
THESE are White Cloud Mountain
Minnows (Tanichthys albonubes). They are easy to keep and I
recommend them to any water gardener, especially those with small
ponds. They lay eggs and will breed prolifically during spring and
summer. If there are any other fish in the pond, even Goldfish,
they will eat the eggs and young minnows. The adult White Clouds
will not eat their eggs or young so all you need is a pond with no
other species present and you will be breeding White Clouds!
Weekend Gardener, Issue 96, 2002, Page 22
Advice by Andrew Maloy, former Plant Doctor of the Weekend Gardener and Kiwi Gardener magazines
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