Mom and kids

[Guest14017]

Shubunkins. Mom is the largest one (she is quite small for her age) and the smaller ones are her babies. She is a short tailed LONDON type Shubunkin. $2 from Petco. She was gotten just on a whim one day as it is uncommon to see the London types here.. She bred with random fancy goldfish in the same system a bit earlier this year.

These just ACCIDENTALLY survived and grew up. I don't breed goldfish and don't particularly like single tailed goldfish - but they aren't hurting anything and can stay.

Buddy with the yellow head and blue body has a short LONDON type tail as well. The others have a long forked standard type tail. Interesting how genetics work.

 

[itiwhetu]

They are big youngsters for less than a year old. What do you feed them?

 

[Guest14017]

They are big youngsters for less than a year old. What do you feed them?

They aren't that big. Their mom is just very small for her age. She is MAYBE 5" at max and over 2 years old. The other Shubunkin I have near her age is WAY bigger than her. Lady Elizabeth is just dinky. They're about 6 months old. I only feed Blue Ridge floating pellets and not often. They mostly survive off of the algae and whatever falls into their little pool.

 

[Stan510]

I love Shubunkins. Beautiful hardy fish and really if I ever go to more fish keeping? Its going to be for fancy Goldfish..not Koi. Too big. But maybe Butterfly Koi in the future one day. Shubunkins,Lion headed calico Orandas...just the whole team.
Great healthy fish you have there. I dont think I've ever seen that much yellow color on them. On the head, makes it standout even more.

 

[Guest14017]

I love Shubunkins. Beautiful hardy fish and really if I ever go to more fish keeping? Its going to be for fancy Goldfish..not Koi. Too big. But maybe Butterfly Koi in the future one day. Shubunkins,Lion headed calico Orandas...just the whole team.
Great healthy fish you have there. I dont think I've ever seen that much yellow color on them. On the head, makes it standout even more.

The yellow is likely due to some of who she bred with. There are 2 male lemon head Orandas in the pond that bred with her. There was one more baby that I had a HARD time catching that's in this video too.