What do you call a pregnant goldfish - a twit?

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According to the Goldfish Society of Great Britain (There's a society for everything): (1) Goldfish don't get pregnant--they're egg layers. Only taxonomically termed "beasts" can be pregnant. One says of egg-laden goldfish that they're ripe. (2) He had never heard of a pregnant, ripe, or any other kind of goldfish being called a twit. The remainder of this article is quite entertaining, with almost "too" much information following at: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020329.html Feb 24 08, 2:35 PM

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Also see http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question29489.html Goldfish reproduction This is only possible when fish are sexually mature, at about one year of age. Males develop breeding tubercles on the operculum (gill covers) and along the first ray of the pectoral fins, whilst females are more plump. They are egg scatterers, whereby the male is often seen chasing the females at spring time (coinciding with elevated temperatures after a cool break), the females are stimulated to expel her eggs and the male fertilises them with his milt. There is no parental care, in fact, these eggs or newly hatched fry may be predated upon by their own parents. Bushy plants or spawning mops should be used along the sides of the tank or pond during these times, and the eggs removed and raised separately. http://www.petalia.com.au/templates/StoryTemplate_Process.cfm?Story_No=2029 Feb 25 08, 12:43 AM

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