Comet Goldfish

The comet goldfish is the United States' only indigenous goldfish to date. In the 1880s, the American Department of Fisheries developed the comet fish; some time after this happened Hugo Merlett, a breeder of fish, seemed to create a strain that was not dissimilar to that previous type of fish. 'Comet' was the name Hugo Mulrett supplied to his new type of fish. In Japan, the goldfish is known throughout as "tetsugyo." In the Mall of Washington, D.C., you will find comet fish in its signature reflecting pond.

A comet fish will look extremely similar to the typical goldfish, to the level that most can mistake them. For the most part, a comet goldfish will carry fins that are twice as big, and a aerodynamic look than the regular goldfish. You can often find a comet fish's fins to be even larger than its own body, which is one feature that attracts people to them.

Comet fish are bright orange, just like regular goldfish, but they can also come in yellow, silver, or any permutation of these two colors you can imagine. Nacreous cometfish are even a typical find, though the majority are metallic.

The cometfish can swim just as dextrously as the regular goldfish, and as they can survive a wide variety of temperature changes, anywhere from 40 to 80 degrees, these fish are fantastic if you want to fill an aquarium or pond. The regular goldfish is commonly more sizeable than the comet, which will only grow up to about 9 inches at maximum.

You can find out more about other types of goldfish and caring for goldfish at www.goldfishcare.org

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