Hello guys I am planning to have a very big Goldfish at Home. I search online what a big goldfish look like. I have found one but I am not sure of it. Please help me identify this big goldfish if this is really true...
Hello guys I am planning to have a very big Goldfish at Home. I search online what a big goldfish look like. I have found one but I am not sure of it. Please help me identify this big goldfish if this is really true...
agreed, the man looks way to comfortable for that fish to be 30lbs. However, if you want to keep giant goldfish, or goldfish that will hopefully grow to be giant, a pond is probably your best bet.
The fish at the link looks more like a koi or wild carp, both of which get very big. Koi get about 2-4 feet. All goldfish get rather large though, fancy varieties can get 6-10 inches while the long and lean comets can reach 2 feet when kept in ponds.
The largest goldfish I have personally seen were three 8-10 inch ryukins that lived in a 100 gallon tank at a Chinese restaurant.
I had a comet that I won at a fair for 8 or 9 years and it topped out 8 inches or so.
Oboy...You just looked at the koi, not a true goldfish.:wink2:
The biggest goldfish would be comets or hibunas (common goldfish) at 18 inches. Shubunkins are a tad smaller but all singletails are best kept in ponds or anything not smaller than a 75g. A 75g can fit only at least 3 singletails.
The largest fancies are orandas, ryukins, fantails, telescopes, lionheads and ranchus at 8-10 inches average. The largest ever recorded is an oranda, Bruce at 14.6" but that feat is rarely achieved. 12" alone is good enough. One of my black orandas that recently passed away was 10-12" in length.
The standard recommendation is 20 gallons for 1 goldfish and 10-20 gallons for every goldfish after that. However, you have to make sure the length of the narrowest sides will be long enough for your goldfish to turn around in. You can never say for certain that the cute little fish you buy is going to stop growing at 6 inches.
maybe the reason they got confused is because both are from the carp family but the koi came from japan and goldfish from china.
Goldfish are a easy to care for and come in over 120 varieties. Although rare, they have been known to grow to a maximum length of 23 inches and a maximum weight of 9.9 pounds. Most don't get larger than 10 to 12 inches. While the longest a goldfish has ever lived is 40 years, most don't last longer than 6 to 8.
I'm sure you could if you wanted to, so long as it hasn't been exposed to toxins. I know you're not supposed to eat fish exposed to malachite green, a common medication ingredient.
I have seen common carp x goldfish hybrids before, they're huge and often quite pretty. http://bankfisher.com/hybridgallery.JPG Although, i'm sure most of the hybrid offspring are probably ugly/deformed. If you want a really big "goldfish" just go for koi or carp instead.
Koi, carp and goldfish are all related and are members of the "carp family". The scientific classification family they are all a member of is Cyprinidae. Cyprinidae is home to barbs, minnows, rasboras and sharks as well.
You'll notice koi and common carp have the same scientific name, they are the same species but look virtually nothing alike... much like how an oranda goldfish llooks nothing at all like a comet goldfish yet they are the same species. Koi are just domesticated ornamental carp. Goldfish and the common carp are closely related enough that they can produce viable offspring like horses and donkeys can produce a mule or hinny.
And the picture is posted on the first page ot this topic and it is also as fake as a 255$ bill.
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