Show us YOUR goldfish! (A photo thread)

What types of goldfish do you keep?

  • Common/feeder

    Votes: 85 29.4%
  • Comet

    Votes: 88 30.4%
  • Shubunkin

    Votes: 56 19.4%
  • Oranda

    Votes: 94 32.5%
  • Moor/telescope

    Votes: 75 26.0%
  • Ranchu

    Votes: 29 10.0%
  • Ryukin

    Votes: 70 24.2%
  • Fantail

    Votes: 98 33.9%
  • Bubble-eye

    Votes: 15 5.2%
  • Celestial

    Votes: 8 2.8%
  • Wakin

    Votes: 7 2.4%
  • Watonai

    Votes: 4 1.4%
  • Pearlscale

    Votes: 29 10.0%
  • Jikin

    Votes: 2 0.7%
  • Tosakin

    Votes: 3 1.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 27 9.3%

  • Total voters
    289
My crazy goldfish

Sorry my Goldfish will not stand still to have there picture taken. They think it is feeding time, they always think its feeding time. There like dogs!

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It's been ages since I was last actively contributing around here, but I figured I should at least post up some updates on the fish.

The current setup, main changes in the last few months:
- Largest common and shubunkin relocated to relative's pond
- Added 8 Oto Cats and 5 Golden algae eaters (A controversial choice, but they have gone two months without getting into trouble with the goldies).
- More work on live plants, pressurized CO2 added.

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My star goldie "Cal" has grown a bit, and faded out a lot of his black highlights: (See this post(click) for how he used to look):

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These two comets are still around, looking perhaps a little bedraggled but otherwise behaving like they are healthy. These are the two that I nearly lost to infection(click) last year, and a recent relapse was seen on the orange spotted one. This explains the scarred up tail fins. They have been real troopers:

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Polly still has his frill. Turns out he was nearly full size when I got him:

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These next two are the ones my father coined the "sharkie twins" when they were first introduced. They started out completely black(click), and I had naively thought them to be chocolate orandas. Well, they quickly changed color, and only recently has there been any oranda-like wen growth at all.

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Sorry for not stopping by more often. Hope somebody remembers these guys. :)
 
Browsing through this thread again, it's been awhile. Everyone loves pictures, so here's a couple. Lost my big orange ryukin a couple of days ago due to floaty issues I never could rectify. Tank isn't the same without him happily floating in the top left corner. First one in the tank, first one to go.

Contrast my tank to this post http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2187838&postcount=247.

It's amazing to me how much the fish have grown in less than a year, especially the singletail. I found the bare bottom actually more difficult to maintain than the black gravel I have now. The blueish bottom picture is how the tank actually appears, but the fish don't photograph as well without the flash.

The little ranchu is the bully of the tank, rocketing around like a little green golf ball and smashing into the others.

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i am very happy to see so cool looking fish and so healthy love them all.
 
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This is my redcap Oranda (or so Walmart says it is, but he doesn't seem to have much of a wen, and most of the others did...) I thought he was just too cute!:goldfish:
 
I wanted to share some of my previous little lovies...

the two balck and orange pearlscales...Mr. T and Ochocinco
the two orange and white pearlscales...Gullible Wideload and Tubs (Tubs was my 1st ever!!)
white fantail...the rescue from Walmart...Ali A Bab Wa (which I will never do the retail rescue thing again, broke my heart!)
the calico fantail baby...Cali Fish

and the only little partner I have right now...baby black Moor...Mr. Moor

When I have the money I am going to upgrade Mr. Moor to a bigger home...and then get him some tankmates as well!! Pearlscales are my absolute favorite but I like them all!!

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