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I was wondering if anyone else on this board is a goldfish keeper (as in, a serious keeper who takes legitimate care of the animal, not someone who replaces them monthly as they die of ammonia poisoning in a fish bowl, rofl). If so, what kinds of goldfish do you keep? Do you have a pond? Do you breed? Post pics of your fish if you please!
I currently have four common goldfish and six fancies. The fancies are all babies 2" and under so they're living in a 75g until they start to outgrow it. They include two fantails, two lionheads, a bubble eye, and a pearlscale. The pearlscale, bubble eye, one of the fain tails, and one of the lionheads each have only one eye, because I have a weird "thing" for one eyed goldfish for some reason. Three of the commons, a 12" 4 y.o. male and his two 3" offspring, live in a 100g bin in my basement and are soon moving into a 300g bin, which is as close as I'm apt to get to a pond. The last common has insanely bad facial deformities so he has to live alone (well, sortof. he lives with a rosy red minnow). He's also growth stunted, so his humble abode is a 20g - plenty spacious for a one year old who has not passed the 2.5" mark.
Here's a few (low quality) pics. Sorry they're so crappy, I don't have photoshop on this computer so I'm compressing everything in the origional Paint program.
Buddy, Calico Fantail
Richard II, Pearlscale
Prodigy, Common Goldfish
Loxia, deformed Common Goldfish
I currently have four common goldfish and six fancies. The fancies are all babies 2" and under so they're living in a 75g until they start to outgrow it. They include two fantails, two lionheads, a bubble eye, and a pearlscale. The pearlscale, bubble eye, one of the fain tails, and one of the lionheads each have only one eye, because I have a weird "thing" for one eyed goldfish for some reason. Three of the commons, a 12" 4 y.o. male and his two 3" offspring, live in a 100g bin in my basement and are soon moving into a 300g bin, which is as close as I'm apt to get to a pond. The last common has insanely bad facial deformities so he has to live alone (well, sortof. he lives with a rosy red minnow). He's also growth stunted, so his humble abode is a 20g - plenty spacious for a one year old who has not passed the 2.5" mark.
Here's a few (low quality) pics. Sorry they're so crappy, I don't have photoshop on this computer so I'm compressing everything in the origional Paint program.
Buddy, Calico Fantail
Richard II, Pearlscale
Prodigy, Common Goldfish
Loxia, deformed Common Goldfish
