Varieties of goldfish

To date, there is more ten varieties of goldfish. Among them are a comet, a shubunkin, a veil tail, a lionhead, a pearl, a telescope, a lantern, and each strikes with its individuality, grace, fascinating all fans to watch life in the aquarium.

So, comet Is a kind of a goldfish with a long tail,which in its size may be larger than the body of the fish itself. And the longer the fins, the higher the breed. The color of the comet can be bright red or red-white, and multi-colored fishes are valued more than one-color ones.

Fish with an interesting name "Shubunkin" has transparent flakes and a mottled, bright color. The rarest are blue fishes with dark red, brown, yellow and black specks.

Voyalehvost (it is also called "riukin" or "daisy chain"tail ") - one of the most common varieties of goldfish. She has a short, ovoid body and enlarged eyes. The tail, hanging in the form of a veil, is the main beauty of a fish. It consists of two long bifurcated parts of almost transparent fins. The best vailehvosts who lived in the gardens of the Japanese emperors had a tail six times the length of the body. Representatives of this species are more susceptible to various diseases, and they live much less than their relatives.

Fish lance differs by the original outgrowths on the head. There are a lot of color variants of oranda - from white to red, motley, black. But more than others, a white lance with a red outgrowth on its head (red-horned lance) is valued. These fish are difficult to withdraw and even from very good producers can not get them more than 10-15%. Therefore, in the international market, the oranda is one of the most expensive fish.

Orange, black, bright red, calico - the most characteristic colors for such fish as telescopes. This breed has greatly increased eyes thatmakes the fish so interesting. The eyes are diverse in size, shape and direction of their axes. Usually the eyes are directed in different directions and often somewhat forward such that the axis of each eye is perpendicular to the head.

The telescopes are very vulnerable, theirit is very easy to damage. Therefore, it is best to keep these pets separately from other fish and sharp underwater objects. Bad also carry telescopes sharp temperature fluctuations.

Lionhead in the aquariums of the amateurs appeared relativelyrecently. From the age of 3 months on the gill covers of these fish, there are skin densities that resemble the mane of a lion, which is their characteristic feature. The sprout is much larger than that of the oranda, it covers the entire head, and sometimes the eyes of the lionhead.

Pearl - a spectacular decoration of any aquarium. This fish is very unusual - each scales on its body are round and convex, and also bordered with dark color so that in the rays of light it looks like a small pearl. Because of what I got this name. The color of pearls is golden, orange-red and white (but this is very rare).

Pompon - a kind of goldfish with a short body and fins. Basically it has a red-gold color. A characteristic feature of the fish is the voluminous skin formation on the nose in the form of a pompon. There are also varieties of this fish with two symmetrical pompoms located on the sides of the mouth. This aquarium inhabitant is not too expensive, but it is quite rare.