Please Help!

[EX1EY]

Have a 100L tank, 1 khuli loach (I know I need more, long story!) 2 male guppies, 1 bristlenose pleco.

My friend has just got a 24L tank with some neons and a female Siamese fighter, he text me and asked me if I could take another fish off him because it was being aggressive, figured because my tank was bigger and there's room it could work out okay. Just picked it up and it's currently in a bag inside my tank but it looks like a gold fish to me! Not only that but it's very aggressive already! Can anybody tell me what fish this is?

Thanks in advance

 

[Ch4rlie]

A pic would be helpful really.

 

[EX1EY]

Sorry thought I attached it, done now

 

[Zikofski]

yea that looks like a gold fish to me but i have been wrong in the past  

 

[Ch4rlie]

Yes, that looks like a Yellow Comet Goldfish.
 
"Common goldfish have fairly streamlined bodies and are good swimmers. Comet goldfish, with the long flowing tails and fins are still of the 'common' type; they're not true fancies. Common goldfish are really not suitable for the average home aquarium; they grow very large (many to over a foot long) and are quite messy, so realistically they need a tank of 5'/1.5m in length to have enough room, which is a much bigger tank than most people can manage. These fish are very much best left to the pond."
 
Quoted from this article -
 
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/417799-goldfish-for-beginners/

 

[Brilly91]

Yer thats a pretty bog standard yellow goldfish in my opinion, used to have about 70 of them lol

 

[EX1EY]

Damn it!! What should I do?!?!?!

 

[sawickib]

Rehome it with a local fish store they need coldwater anyways as i would imagine your other fish are tropical fish.

 

[Ch4rlie]

Got another tank or container you could put it in for now?
 
Airstone and pump or sponge filter in a container of dechlored water, is about all you need for moment. 
Ideally if you have a pond, maybe put it in there.
 
Then re-home it is best option, since these guys are colder water fish than tropical and as you've already mentioned, can be aggressive.

 

[EX1EY]

Yeah it's in another container ready to be taken to LFS tomorrow. There is a big cold freshwater pond across the road from my house. Would it be happy in there or should I take it to LFS?

 

[Ch4rlie]

Not sure about the pond, the goldfish may be ok or it may cause problems for the livestock int here already. Depends
 
Probably best to take to LFS

 

[Brilly91]

I wouldn't throw it ina random pond unless its an ornamental one containing goldifsh koi etc and id seek permission too if you did that.

 

[Wills]

Never release fish into the wild even if it is an enclosed pond on public land in a park etc it is illegal and issues like that are causing havoc all over the world.
 
If its a pond on private property, talk to the owner it may be possible to keep it in there which would be ideal really other than that I think the LFS is the best bet - being of a good size he stands a good chance of finding a good home rather than a bowl...
 
Wills

 

[Zikofski]

it wouldn't hurt to ask the owner of the pond opposite who knows they may have more but safest place would be back at lfs
 
EDIT - if the pond is public, the fish will certainly die in that pond probably maybe a nice meal for the current stocking