I think i read something about this in National Geographic years ago, but I am unsure. Any links would be great as I searched Google and couldn’t find anything about this. I searched evything from Underground living organisims, evolution, ecology, and even geothermal rivers.
I had an argument with someone who said i was lying! I just said i was unsure.
can someone clarify this , I would appreciate it. Thanks
There are, In Death Valley I think, fish that hibernate in dried up pond mud until it rains. Also frogs, but they’re somewhere else.
I know someone who had a moderately sized private pond built (I’d say it was probably around 3 acres in size or so) and without any action on his part he found some small fish in it after time.
He eventually stocked it with some fish himself, but there was no connection to a stream or any tributary around the pond and fish did appear in it without his doing. So unless we have people who do drive by fish stockings then yes, it does happen.
I’m not sure how, fish eggs are very small and it’s not inconceivable for them to cross land to water via certain means (say maybe they stick to a frog, or something.)
Huh?
Only in three cases can I imagine that you could have apparently spontaneous fish generation in your impromptu pond.
You happened to dig right above where some African lungfish have capsulized.
Somehow some fish eggs got into your hole.
Some sort of Fortean fish-carrying weather pattern dumped them there.
Where did you ever get the idea that fish could spontaneously generate in water?
If you dig it, they will come? Usually, when a man-made pond grows fish that the owner did not install, it’s the work of a trespasser. Either it’s a prank, or the interloper hopes to come back when the fish are fat and sassy. Everybody has heard of an office building or apartment complex where the runoff pond gets stocked by some volunteer.
One man I know had bass and bluegill in his pond, and the flooding of the Blue River brought in a few catfish. The frogs and snapping turtles probably walked in.
Well like I said Jayjay, I’ve seen it happen. And I can’t speak for the OP but I had heard of this sort of thing before.
Perhaps if some errant coyote in your yard were to drop his bottle of Acme Instant Fish Tablets… 
That’s entirely possible. My friend in question lives in a fairly secluded part of western Virginia, so maybe someone stocked the pond thinking he’d come back later and fish it. Doesn’t make much sense though as there is a river within 1.5m and several streams that are stocked by the DNR so I don’t see how logical it would be for someone to do that and not instead just fish the river.
hi,
yes I found those fish on Google during my search, they are called Killfish. But, they lay thier eggs in the mud, so that means those type of fish must already be present in an area where there is water.
I could swear i read in NG that scientists dug a hole and some time later, fish appeared. however, I don’t remember much else of the article, so maybe like you said they dug the hole where there were already fish eggs.
My question is, if i dug the hole in my backyard, would they eventually appear, of course someone told me to try it out, and i think from what i remember the hole had to be 8 feet deep, but again, i don’t even remember the article, just something about scientists being perplexed by it and was wondering if maybe someone had some information about this, or some truth.
~wondering away :dubious:
I was taught in my biology class that in an exceptionally large rainfall, so large that water traverses where it normally does not, even in very small sheets, small fish can move from pond to pond. Perhaps this method doesn’t occur as often as the other methods already mentioned, but on non-mountainous land I can see this happening once a decade or so.
1 1/2 miles isn’t all that horribly far for an otter or a beaver or a duck to happen to inadvertently pick up and carry fish eggs or small fish in its fur or feathers and saunter over, depositing same in the new pond.
Don’t let jayjay scare you. He just learned the word “spontaneously”, and has been dying for a chance to use it.
And it was killifish I was referring to in Death Valley. I’m unclear on their life cycle, though.
Where is Darwin when you need him? j/k
Thats ok, i’d like to hear everyones opinion if possible, some people belive it is impossible while others do not. It’s a very skeptical (and kinda stupid) question, but i thought it would be worth asking since i got a 50/50 response from alot of people at work. It’s all just fun. 
I’ll have you know that I’ve known the meaning of “spontaneously” for going on 28 years now, thank you very much!
Although I have been told I’m scary, but that has more to do with the 5’11", 350 lb, bearded, scowly thing than my ninja mastery of the word “spontaneously”.
Don’t feel bad. There are some people on another (mercifully buried) thread who believe that fat can spontaneously (thanks, jj. :)) appear on your body. :smack:
I never said the fish would “spontaneously” appear, i should have been more clear, i belive they were referring to micro-organisims in the ground that may have did a little “hanky-panky” with some other micro-organisims.
but, I’m going to have to agree with #2 or 3. I just couldn’t see that happening, at least not in that period of time, i was thinking more like a billion years then they would appear. But given the theory of evolution…
oh and i got the idea from National Geographic, actually it was thier (scientists)idea, i just happened to remember it today
And I apologize to you, ancientmariner, for misreading your OP in a manner that gave me the impression that you thought that fish would just appear (SPONTANEOUSLY! ;)) in a hole dug and filled with water.
So…how’s that albatross hangin’ today, anyway? 
…stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea…
What was that guy’s name, A scientist on PBS? He had a series, and once he gathered all the stuff that makes up the human body and put it a tank. Nobody appeared, but the point was made.
He, the scientist, died a while back. Not Sagan :(. Somebody else.
Anyway, what the OP talks about sounds like something he’d be involved with.