Goldfish question....

I sure hope my goldfish doesn't have fangs like that!lol! Thank you this info will really help!:D I got 3 goldfish so the odds are I'll have a male & a female;)

ick is this white stuff that grows on the fish. its a fungus & it'll kill the fish. A huge % of goldfish die with in the first week.

If ur fish has only 1 tail fin (kinda looks like a "C" shape, then its prob a Commet. they r feeder fish & don't live long if left in a bowl. They r usually imbreed (its really hard to prevent this) & kept in tiny tanks/bags for long periods of time & r sick when they arrive at the store.

If the fish dies with in the first few weeks, its more then likely NOT ur fault. & fancy goldfish die early too because they're all screwed up (I some how don't think the fance goldfish r natural, I think they r man created, like pure dog breeds).

I had Captian Red for about 7-10 years, I really forget but he was super OLD!!! He would have lived longer if my stupid neighbour didn't kill him. He was about the size of my fist & he was a fancy goldfish. He had a butterfly tail (its 2 "C" shaped fins on 1 tail), he was sooooo fat& he was multi coloured, but mostly a rusty red colour. I have a crappy photo of him, but I'm not sure where it is right now.

Oh my your neighbor killed your fish! what a sin! Mine is probably the cheap kind since he was just a decoration at a wedding. Well he has like a < fin lol.

Don't get excited about the sex of the fish. U will not get babies. about 99% of goldfish will only breed in a safe pond enviroment.. Not my pond, its not a safe place for goldfish to breed so my guys will never breed in there, their not stupid.

The last 10 goldfishr doing well & have grown. My biggest one hurds the others like a BC does to sheep. Its soooo cool.

I don't have any pics of the pond fishies right now, but here is what the pond looks like (all the rocks have been removed, its a bare bottom now & I just bought a new huge pond filter)
http://jess.iahu.ca/albums/album73/p..._003.sized.jpg

whoa that's huge! lol! I dunno the size of the tank I;m getting all i know is it has a filter. Once I caught mino's from the lake and kept them and they didn't last over 3 hours!I'm not sure if they have a short lifespan or they are just hard to keep alive in captivity, I actually had him in with my betta but he didn't even care he just looked at him and swan around him a few times and did nothing else....the mino definitly wasn't attacked he was in perfect condition.

the < is what I ment, just never thought of using that symbol hehehe...

My neighbour didn't mean to kill Captain Red. But because she was stupid she ended up killing him. She was fish sitting for 2 weeks while I was in PEI with my dad, sis, RB MAX & my friend. & I came home to a smelly dead tank, ther were 3 fish total, but I wasn't too attached to the others, they were always scared, but not Captain Red :D

The minos were prob. put into shock with the water change. I had a fishing Mino left over from my fishing trip & I kept him & named him Stick. He grew to about 6 inches long & lived with Axle until he boiled to death in my hot room

I usually keep the water luke warm,like the lake. WoW! Minos usually don't live that long! Poor Captain Red....some people sure don't know how to be pet sitters!

I never find the right pet sitters. I lost my Hermit Crab to a pet sitter too & she only had him for the weekend!!

She said she was gonna lock his cage up in a bedroom so the cat cannot get to him & she didn't so the cat scared him almost to death.

I got him back & she didn't tell me anything & then I took him out to play with him & he came outta his shell a bit & slowly died in my hands. I loved Mr. Hairy Legs, I use to hand feed him & let him walk all over my room.

I was very angry at the pet sitter. & it was my moms friend, so she was an adult too.


Ohya the pond is 160 gallons. 7 feet long, 4 feet wide & 18 inches deep & its stays beside my bed :)

Aren't you scared you will roll out of bed into the pond? lol

Yep, thats why I have strong board between my bed & the pond :)

That pic u see is old & my bed wasn't beside it at that time.

The only thing I'm scared of now, is that Axle can get outta the pond. I'm scared to wake up beside him one morning :eek:

So far he hasn't left the side of the pond, but I know that'll change. I also but some glass & junk in the area he gets out, but he moves it all. So I fixed my room so he cannot get outta the bedroom atleast. & he isn't a bitter out of the water so no worries there, but I still don't want to wake up to see him in my bed.