Larvae are newly hatched fish before they’ve absorbed their yolk sac and started free-swimming and feeding on their own, the stage before fingerling. This stage is the most fragile in a fish’s life, and it’s rarely the stage backyard pond owners deal with directly, since most stock ponds with fingerlings or older.
Larvae
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