Carp/goldfish hybrid

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It would be a fairly large fish, so you'd need a big tank. Remember that all carp are very social fish, so you would want to keep it with other goldfish or koi.

I wouldn't try it unless you have a specific goal for the fish in mind, and you plan on keeping the fish for up to 20 years. Koi can easily live for 50+ years, and goldfish have a 20-40 year lifespan. If you just think it "might be fun," don't try it. The breeding would be difficult - you'd probably have to hand-spawn. You would have to raise more than just one fry, so plan on food for a bunch of hungry carp, plus selecting the best one and culling. Then you'll end up with a fish that you'll get tired of in a year or so. The concept has already been proven, and you might end up with a deformed fish. Not a good idea.
 
flaringshutter;2300911; said:
It would be a fairly large fish, so you'd need a big tank. Remember that all carp are very social fish, so you would want to keep it with other goldfish or koi.

I wouldn't try it unless you have a specific goal for the fish in mind, and you plan on keeping the fish for up to 20 years. Koi can easily live for 50+ years, and goldfish have a 20-40 year lifespan. If you just think it "might be fun," don't try it. The breeding would be difficult - you'd probably have to hand-spawn. You would have to raise more than just one fry, so plan on food for a bunch of hungry carp, plus selecting the best one and culling. Then you'll end up with a fish that you'll get tired of in a year or so. The concept has already been proven, and you might end up with a deformed fish. Not a good idea.
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Way to ruin the fun plan...Actually the hybrids are very fertile as in some wild ponds, the hybrids outnumber the pure parents. Minnesota has some ponds full of carp/goldfish hybrids. What make you think Nanoreefer will get bored with hybrid in less than a year and keep it in tank? What about outdoor ponds? Just let him try, no one get perfect on breeding fish at first try. But your right on culling and fry. Im sure that he get healthy ones and manageable numbers of fish. But im not sure about hybrids cause deformed ones...did you work with carp/goldfish hybrids before. If not, how you know?
 
Had some by accident once. My mom had regular goldfish with koi in her outdoor pond. The male goldfish chased the female koi around and spawned with them like it was the thing to do. We saved the eggs and the offspring were not pretty. They basically just looked like wild colored feeder goldfish. It seemed like the hybrids reverted back to a wild type fish. None made it past 5" though cause there was an accident and all the fish in the pond ended up dying.
 
Potts050;2403645; said:
The genus are too far apart, catfish and carp won't produce any living offspring
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What catfish? Did you mean goldfish?
 
andyjs;2442632; said:
Just looks like a "butterfly" carp to me...
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If it has barbels then i say its butterfly koi/common carp cross, but if it doesnt have barbels then its probably goldfish x carp. its hard to see barbels in that picture. But the carp x goldfish does existed.
 
i dont see any reason why they would not be able to, after all they are the same species, just different color over several generations of selectively breeding common carp. koi are carp
 
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