klyntun

I agree, a bigger plainer "gold"fish would be nice if it moved as realistically as the first three now do. I used to have a pre-fab pond that I stocked with comets. Koi were just too expensive, and the mortality rate can be so high for goldfish outdoors. Half inch comets in a number of colors were 10 for a dollar! I had
one--named Halley-- that survived for almost 4 years, and travelled with me through three moves. She grew to about 3 inches long with another inch of flowing tail. Then one night, a marauding band of racoons came through my yard and had a feast. They cleaned out almost every comet from my pond, including Halley; uprooted plants, turned over rocks--basically what racoons do. It was the last time I had fish outdoors.