I've often wondered about the color that fades away.It can't be die as I don't see why they'd do that to such cheap fish?
Feeder Goldfish as Pets
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there are plenty of fish that look different as adults than they do as young or juvenile. that's all it is.
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Never used goldfish as feeders but I have kept rosies and guppies as pets. My girlfriend has a tank FULL of feeder guppies that were supposed to go to my pickerel...they ended up living better than him lol.
I have a small run off/catch-all pond on my property that has been stocked with minnows (by the original owner for fishing bait) and has a well established popluation of frogs and turtles, and other aquatic critters. So, about 5 years ago I decided to give it some color and went out and purchased about 30 feeder goldfish. The following season, I didn't see any sign of any goldfish, so I figured they were fell to predation and/or winter kill. But, the season I finally saw a handful had survived and thrived ranging up to about 12". A couple of years I decided to add some kois, but so far I haven't caught any koi sightings.
No...that was back in my day when I had 26 tanks and over 300 fish, even though he was cool... I never bothered.H]-[H;7072993 said:
I've picked out a few pretty feeder fish in my lifetime. I got one that was all metallic white with a perfectly round dot on it's forhead like the koi. I forget what that kind is called but I still have the fish. I got him the year I graduated highschool which would be 1988 and he's about 15" and very smart for a goldfish. I named him "Spot".
