The Rescued Goldfish Build

[GoldLenny]

As for them changing colors. I was not aware that they would continue to do that? The two that they had were almost solidly orange with a few little brown blotchies on them. They looked very much like slightly discolored common goldfish. Is this usual for a young shubunkin? These guys were around 2-3" long including tails.

Other than buying very well bred goldfish... and sometimes even with them... goldfish other than standard common goldfish WILL almost always change colors many times through their lifetimes. They have been inbred so many times to achieve all the mutations that there are very few pure goldfish out there any longer. Remember that ALL goldfish come from the Common Goldfish and even the Common Goldfish (and Koi) were inbred to achieve their coloration. See that same Bristol Goldfish site and click on the History link to see the original goldfish, which wasn't even gold, and the history of how the various inbred mutations have happened over the past thousand years or so. If you get your goldfish from anyone other than a top-notch breeder, you can expect that you will be getting the mutts, not the champions... although there's nothing wrong with mutts. I have one bugging me to go outside right now... no, not a fish, a dog. LOL There are a few websites with breeders and/or importers where you can get a higher quality of goldfish but you can expect to pay a LOT more money for one of them... even hundreds of dollars each sometimes.

 

[rainbowcharmer]

Yeah I think probably I'll be buying mutts since I'm not in it for show. Just for pleasure.

 

[modri rogatec]

I just wanted to add that even commons change color sometimes...And sometimes these color changes are totally unexpected. For example I bought 7 commons - 5 red, 1 almost completly white with only a blotch of red on his head, tail and fins and one that was red with just a little white. I have had them for 4 yrs and the only color change that happened was that the red fish with just a little white turned completely white. I totally expected for the almost all white fish to turn completely white but his colors stayed the same So sometimes goldies colors can really be unpredictable

 

[carpenter547]

some times people forget that the breeding of an animal should only be done to advance the breed. while i disagree with the deformation of an animal *fancies etc* at least that is an advance however it is sad that so many animals have been breed and allowed to breed and continue undesireable traits.