Give fancy Goldfish a chance. Seriously.

[TheRealAndyCook]

I've got a few Comets and fantails, I believe the fantails are some weird sub-set but I wouldn't know. Thinking about putting them into an indoor pond, they seem to like to swim around my hands and I'm sure my friends kids would enjoy experiencing the same thing.

They're either very social or very dumb, either way I enjoy there colors and "deformities"

 

[kdrun76]

In the late 90's I bred orandas, black moors and fan tails in surprisingly large numbers. I was an undergrad at the time and the hobby easily paid for all my text books each year. I used little kid wading pools for grow out tanks and collected an assortment of aquatic vegetation from the local ponds and rivers to feed the fish with (mostly it was the infusoria I was after). I think I supplied goldfish to more than 50 stores in upstate NY for the years I was doing it.

Today I just have a 125 community with goldies, and if they spawn I let the eggs get eaten, I am done breeding goldfish.

Anyone who thinks goldfish are a lot of work hasn't tried either breeding them, or keeping pacu yet! (Pacu = soggy wet elephant!)