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Pond
Comets
Including
Shubunkins |
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Customer Comments and
our Replies about Pond
Comets including
Shubunkins. Click here
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Customer
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Hi,
For my
first
birthday,
I
recieved
a 10
cent
feeder
fish as
a
present.
It
turned
out that
this
wonderful
present
happened
to be a
comet
goldfish
put in
with the
regular
goldfish.
The
first
name for
this
fish was
Sandy,
as it
was a
white
and
orangish
colour.
Within
five
years
(as this
fish
continued
to
thrive)
it
slowly
lost
it's
colour.
The fish
is now
pure
white,
and is
eight
inches
long.
We no
longer
call it
Sandy,
but The
Glutton
because
it has
cost us
over 400
dollars
in fish
food. I
am
eighteen
now, so
that
makes my
fish
roughly
seventeen.
I was
once
told
that if
a fish
could
live
past
five
years,
it would
probably
live for
thirty.
It's in
a 20
gallon
tank now
with no
other
fish
because
he hogs
the food
and
starves
any
other
fish in
the
tank.
But, I
thought
I'd just
comment,
and send
you his
picture.
I have
attached
it with
this
email
....
hanks
for your
time
Celeste |
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Reply.
Hello Celeste and
thank you for your
interesting comments,
which I enjoyed reading.
I think it's wonderful
that you've had this
fish for 17 years and
hopefully many more
years. Congratulations. |
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Customer Comments |
Dear Fish people;
I quite enjoyed your site. I have been an aquarium friend myself for 25 years. I spent many years with the fresh water heated tank tropicals. Several years ago I went to cold water gold fish. Oranda's and comets. After much enjoyment
in the house, we built an outside pond. They spent the summers out and the winters in. They usually double or triple in size over the summer and slow down their growth in the winter.
I would like to comment on floating food and sinking food. I've used both and learned in several months that sinking food is not a good thing. When the fish are out in the pond they eat bugs off the top of the water and grow
wonderfully ...
I have been feeding floating pellet food and if I may say so, our fish children are beautiful, healthy and swimming upright. I enjoyed your educational insight on fish.
Best fishes to you,
Susan |
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Reply.
Hello Susan. Thank
you for your comments,
which confirm our
comments about feeding
goldfish. Click here
for more about that. |
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Customer
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Hi,
my name
is
Natasha,
and I'm
in grade
5. I'm
doing a
project
on
Goldfish.
I was
wondering
if you
can
answer 2
of my
questions.
My first
question
is what
do
goldfish
hear
under
water?
My
second
one is
do
goldfish
sleep or
rest?
How? I
hope you
can
answer
before
February
8.
Thank
you!
From
Natasha |
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Reply.
Goldfish belong to
the order of fish called
Ostariophysi. Along with
the Tetras and Catfish
this group has a unique
set of bones that attach
to their air bladder.
These bones amplify and
conduct underwater
sounds received in their
air bladder to the
auditory areas of their
brains allowing Goldfish
and their relatives to
hear very well.
Goldfish
are diurnal and at night
seem to go into a
trance-like state. It's
not called sleep,
because they don't have
eye-lids to close. But
other than closing their
eyes, it seems to be
just like our sleep. |
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Customer Comments |
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I read your section on keeping goldfish. In it you said that your regular goldfish might not be happy at all being kept with comets or koi. The article didn't however,
explain why. I have a comet in my tank of goldfish and would like to know what that comment means.
Thank you.
Joy |
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| Reply. Hello Joy. Thank you for your question. In my mind there are three Groups of Goldfish. |
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Group 1.
Pond Comets which have so-called comet-tails with two lobes on their tails that are arranged with one lobe above the other. We sell Pond Comets
like the one shown to the left at our website. Click here for more information about the Goldfish in this Group. |
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Group 2.
Fancy Goldfish with two lobes on their tail fins that are arranged horizontally with one lobe to the left and the other to the right of the fish.
This Group includes Fantails, Black Moors, and Orandas, Click here for more about these Goldfish. |
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Group 3.
Very Fancy Goldfish, like the Red and White Ranchu shown
to the left, plus Lionheads, Bubble Eyes, and Celestials have very limited swimming ability. We do not have more information about this Group on our website. |
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This is a Bubble Eye
Goldfish, which is also a member of Group 3. The bubbles, which are under the eyes, are actually enlarged tear ducts. Bubble Eyes will
usually be nipped by the Goldfish
in Group 1 and Group 2. |
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The Goldfish in Group 1 swim faster than fish in Groups 2 and 3, eat most of the food and will usually nip on fish in Groups 2 and 3.
The fish in Group 2 swim much faster than fish in Group 3, eat most of the food and usually nip on fish in Group 3.
So Goldfish from Groups 1, 2, and 3 should each be kept separately with Goldfish in their own Group and not be mixed with Goldfish from the other two Groups.
For example, keep the various types of Goldfish in Group 2 together but do not mix them with Goldfish from Group 1 or with Goldfish from Group 3.
All of the Goldfish in these three Groups are the same fish species, Carassius auratus, and could possibly interbreed.
Koi are a different fish species, Cyprinus carpio, and will certainly grow too big, swim too fast, eat all the food, and nip on all the types of Goldfish in Groups 2 and 3. But sometimes Koi and Goldfish from Group 1 get along for a while,
but not always. Click here for more information about Koi. |
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