i have a garden pond (in England) with 2 shbunkings, 2 ghost carp, 5 goldfish 3 green tench 3 blue orf and one gold orf. suddenly the pond has lots of baby fish in it but the colours dont seem to match with any adult fish. is it possible for fish to cross breed?
can fish cross breed?
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Yes. Probably your goldfish. Goldfish are goldfish and comets and shubunkins don't care if one looks a little different. I believe there's only one specie of orfe, but I may be wrong here. That could be it too. I'm unsure what a tench is, but I believe you have enough canidates there to have some wide color variation. If it is the goldfish, technically it's not cross-breeding in your standard specie to specie sense. Like when a lab breeds with a golden retriever, same species, different breed. I guess the term can be used pretty loosely
i have some comets too so it looks as if they have all been having a good ole time together. some of the babies look like small ghost carp but they are dark green with a silver belly! would they change colour as they get older? will they cross breed?
Most goldfish, if not all, start out a bronzish or steel brown color. They will eventually turn other colors, though some retain the drab brown. And these could cross breed as well, providing that we're still talking goldfish here.