what's my name ? - A Gardeners Forum [Archive]

Can you help me name my fish? I bought 4 rather nice sized feeder goldfish for my bathtub pond and ceramic pot pond. They are all orange, except for one that has black on all it's fins.

So far I have:

"Sweetie" for sweet potato

how about kumquat? thats an orange fruit.
hey, did you know that the "black" on goldfish is a fungus (someone told me that a long time ago)

I had heard something like that, Phoenix, but my son had a goldfish that had a black mustache, and a little on his fins - he lived for about 11 years or so, so I got this one anyway...

the fungus isn't harmful to them. i had one that had a "black stripe" down his back,then one day it was just gone

i thought it was the strangest thing until my nana told me what was going on. persimon as another name (i think those are orange)

my cousin just came up with a good one:

Julie or Julius - for the Orange Julius drink

A punkin' is orange!

Good one, Cindy !

Yours too, Phoenix! <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" />

Actually, when you buy goldies (especially feeder goldies from cramped feeder tanks) the black is usually ammonia burn. The water quality in those tanks is horrendous and the fish are literally singed.

Baby goldies are often born dark in color to help with camoflauge too.

I've never heard of a black fungus. Fungus, on fish, only grows on dead tissue, so unless there was trauma to an area that would cause damage to the tissue, it probably wouldn't be a true fungus.

*fish geek...sorry guys.*

Apricot, mango, pepper.

I guess I didn't post what I chose - good ones too, toot1!

I have...

Sweetie for sweet potato
Manny for mango
Carrie for carrot
Julie for orange julius

Now I just hope they survive the summer - so far, so good!

how about persie for persimmon????

Ninni

OOOOOOh, I like that, Ninni!

Now I need another fish to give that name to!

thank you, thank you:)