What type of goldfish is this?

Question

I set up a cold water tank about a month ago and went to buy the first fish today. i was planning on getting a standard fantail, but i saw this one unusual coloured one, its really metallic gold - not orange and white like the others, and has a black strip down its back and a black tail. the woman in the shop sold it cheap because she said "its probably one that came out wrong" only cost £1.50 the others were £5.99. i cant find any pics on the net of similar ones... what type of goldfish is this?

Answer 1

Genetics are weird.  It may be a cross form one of those metalic fantails (I don't the name sorry) and a black moor/fantail. Such a cross would likely be unwanted (though pretty).  May just be a freak coloration (hey, the gold was a freak color from the natural olive colored koi)

Answer 2

we had them come in our petstore (petsmart) all the time , when we transfered them from  the shipping bags they all gad lables on them. I remember one that sounds just like urs, they are listed as chocolate oranda's or red oranda's . The color difference usually ment they were mixed with a pure color of some sort.  

Answer 3

It sounds like one i have in my pond and ours is a coy, but i would need to see a picture to properly identify it. :)

Answer 4

That is a ryukin fancy goldfish. Regular(Common) goldfish get a foot and com in one size, not in many. He will get about 6-8 inches and needs at least 10 gallons to himself and another 10 gallons for every additional fish you add. He may lose the black as he gets older.

Answer 5

This is regular goldfish. They can be in different colors and body shapes, gicve us some oictures so we may see it.

You may read more about fish keeping on

http://aquatropicalfish.com/Goldfish_var...

or ask friendly forum

http://aquatropicalfish.com/forum/index....

Answer 6

The type of goldfish isn't based on color but on body shape and finnage.  Most types of goldfish come in a range of colors from all white to dark orange to black.  Black is an unstable color and goldfish often lose it as they get older.  

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Answer 7

If by metalic gold, you mean orange but lighter and more shiny than say a red oranda, then you have a proper gold Fantail.  The black stripe in most fish is black pigmentation which vanishes or intensifies through time depending on both light and nutrition.

The actual Gold colour as we perceive it, compared to so called goldfish which are red or orange in reality is actually quite a prized colour, and goldfish do not come out wrong.  If you breed goldfish, they can't breed true.  A fish type which is so inbred due to selective morphing to obtain unatural body shapes and designs, is incapable of breeding true even if the two parents are identical.

If you breed from two Red cap Orandas, for example, they will produce a multitude of multi-coloured fry all of which or at least the vast majority of which look nothing like the parents.  Only a choice few will be white and maybe the odd one will have a red cap.  All the red ones and red and white ones will be sold as red and white orandas, or fantails, the blues, as such, and the Calicos as such but they are all from the same brood and siblings.

Thats why inbreeding is so common.

The other thing most people don't realise is that all goldfish are born, olive brown or black or in some of the fancier forms, dark silver.  Only after they are a year old, and have absorbed Vitamin D from the UV rays of the sun or artifitial lighting do they change to their permanent colour forms.  The balck does not always simply fade to white or red, but can actually fade away in patches almost like paint being washed off.  The black tail may well be permanent, but the black stripe will most likely fade out and leave you with a beautiful yellow gold fantail with a black/ dark brown tail.

Answer 8

Here is a good site with pics and descriptions of the commonly found goldfish types as well as very good information about keeping goldfish.

http://www.kokosgoldfish.com/ftypes.html

Hope this helps~