breeding lingo

[tothna]

What is everything called when it comes to breeding fish?
What are the babies called? eggs? etc
what is a fry?
what exactly is spawning?
thanks

 

[sleepyflight]

Spawning is the process that ends the first part of the courtship. The female lays a ton of eggs while the male follows behind and busts a load over the eggs to fertilize.....thats spawning. The little wigglers upon hatching are the fry....fry being plural.

 

[tothna]

so when the female lays the eggs, does the female guard them, or the male?

 

[lizardfishman]

both do in most species of cichlids

 

[guppy]

Eggs are eggs, fry are baby fish, spawning is laying eggs, courtship is what happens before egg laying, some fish build nests some don't, species vary as to care of nest/young. egg sack fry are tiny wrigglers that feed mainly off the yolk reserves they carry after hatching and tend to be very vulnerable to damage and disease. Aros are often sold at this stage and while they are cheaper then I would not buy one but maybe I'm just chicken.
To confuse you there are also smolts, parr, planktonic fry, neotonous young, elvers, and yellows.