Pearlscale Goldfish Update (Sept 2013)

About a month ago I posted about the Pearlscale goldfish I bought and promised to update when they have shown changes in their colorations and guess what, some of them already did!

This one was bronze colored and not only has it turned golden, it also has some bubbly piece of growth under both its eyes. I also have another with similar characteristics in the picture below.

I’m not sure whether they are going to grow into telescopic-eyed goldfish as I’ve never grown one before. I’ll just hope that these grow healthy so I could see how they will turn out to be in a few more months time.

Here are some of the other who have developed red markings on their big, round-bellied bodies.

Sorry for the poor cam quality.

They are now transferred to a another box pond, formerly the home of my zebra danios and mollies, together with other types of goldfish mainly black moors, orandas, calico ryukins and also a few rosy barbs.

By the way, these Pearlscale goldfish and their fellow pond mates are up for sale on my Facebook pet page MAGS-Pets so if your interested, just click on the link and drop me a message. Thanks for visiting my blog and reading my post. Will be back soon with another blog post! Open-mouthed smile

Happy pet-keeping!

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