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Poll - Fry Stages - ilrak - 03-08-2015 Hello all! This poll is to help me decide on how I want the goldfish fry to develop. The main two options I'm deciding between are having the sex, breed, colors, and markings of the developing fry be revealed in details/profile page of the fry at hatching or to be revealed during each stage of development. Let's take the typical goldfish fry as an example: This little fellow has just hatched out of the egg and is in this stage for five days. In Example one, you would know it's sex, breed, colors, and markings right away. Let's say that we're going with example two though. At this point, you know it's one of the double tailed breeds. The dark coloring implies that this fish will most likely have a red, orange, brown, black, Blue, or green body color. Fin color, markings, sex, and actual breed are unknown. It is in this stage for another five days Now, we can tell that the fish is red, has white fins, and is male (see the tiny star on his cheek). We don't know how fertile he is (male fertility determines how many offspring he is likely to have each spawning). Judging by the wen, it is a safe bet that this will be an oranda. This stage lasts 5 days. Here is the fellow, fully grown (using a gene that I may or may not keep). You can see that he had a hidden color of blue, expressed in the gene/marking that showed up at adulthood. He also has three stars, signifying that he has a fertility of 3 (average). Note, this is not the final draft of an oranda male, but rather something I've thrown together for tonight. So, what would you rather have?  The ability to see what your fish will be as an adult right away, via information on a pet page/profile page or to have these details revealed throughout the growth of the fish? RE: Poll - Fry Stages - MinkxAoba - 03-08-2015 I like the idea of knowing right away what the colorings will be because it'll be easier to adopt and choose what fish you'd like to breed at a later date.