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Page 2 about
Fancy Goldfish for Sale
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Customer Comments and our Replies about Fancy Goldfish.
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Customer Comments
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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 first hand comments
about your goldfish. I agree with you. Thanks again.
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Customer Comments
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I just started a pond and
I don't know anything about
fish. I was
hoping to get an answer
from your website but I
couldn't find the right
place.
Two of my fish are supposed
to be Fantail goldfish but
they are kind of colored
like the shubunkins. One
of them is being chased
around the pond (only sometimes)
by what the pet store called
feeder fish (comets??) and
I was trying to find out
why ... is this mating??
It does not look sick, and
is not going to the top
to suck air and I can't
find any ick or parasites.
Help me, please!!! It is
too pretty to let something
happen to it. What to do??
Judy
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Reply.
Hello Judy. Here is what I read in your email. You
have two Calico Fantails, and one of them is being
chased and annoyed part of the time by a Pond Comet.
There are some Fantails
in one of the pictures above, but none of them is
a calico. Fantails have two horizontal lobes on
their tails. When a Fantail swims one lobe of its
tail is behind and to the left, and the other lobe
is behind and to the right.
Click
here
to see a picture of a Pond Comet. Pond Comets also
have tails with two lobes, but one lobe is above
and the other below. Maybe this sounds confusing,
but when you look at the two kinds of tails, it
is quite easy to see the difference.
This difference in
their tails is important, because Goldfish with
comet-tails will usually pick on Goldfish with fan-tails.
These two types of Goldfish are the same species
and can interbreed, but they are not really compatible.
We recommend that they not be kept together in the
same pond or aquarium.
So you need to separate
these two types of Goldfish. Perhaps you could ask
the fish store to take back the Comet.
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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
now for more information about Koi. |
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Customer Comments
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I'm thinking about buying
2 Red Orandas (Goldfish
2-2.5 in.) and 2 Red & White
Orandas (Same as above)
I know they eat plants so
I was wondering what plants
I should put in an aquarium
if I want to have the goldfish
eat them, also, how big
an aquarium should I get?
Andy |
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Reply.
Hello Andy. You are correct, when you say that Goldfish
like Orandas like to eat plants. But you don't need
to put live plants in your aquarium, because good
flake food includes lots of plants.
If you feed your
Goldfish the foods that are recommend, then you
don't need to feed your goldfish any live plants.
Click
here now to read about feeding Orandas.
Live plants are very
beautiful in an aquarium, but they make keeping
an aquarium clean more difficult. It is difficult
for me to decide whether to recommend live plants
or not to recommend them. But Goldfish do not need
to eat live plants, if you feed them good food.
You also wanted to
know how big an aquarium to get. Four young Orandas
that are about 2.5" long will each need at least
5 gallons of water. So you'd need 4 x 5 = 20 gallons
of water.
But the Goldfish
will grow and eventually need at least 15 gallons
of water, and then they will need 4 x 15 = 60 gallons
of water.
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