Posted on 07/14/2021 9:35:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Usually when they breed outdoors the ones that survive to breed and grow are the ones with the poorest color, so in short order, in certain bodies of water, you have tons of silvery goldfish doing all the breeding, not bright gold ones. It is those silvery survivors that proliferate and become a nuisance because many of them get big enough to avoid the usual predators.
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