Fish with weird eyes, what species?

[TJ Poseno]

I bought these fish from the Pet Store today and was curious about
them. And I cant remember the names.

Theyre like a Comet tpye fish but they have eyes that bulg out of
theyre heads and they look forward. Instead of the the left and right
like most other fish. What are these called?

Thanks in advance.

[sophie]

In message >, TJ Poseno
> writes
>I bought these fish from the Pet Store today and was curious about
>them. And I cant remember the names.
>
>Theyre like a Comet tpye fish but they have eyes that bulg out of
>theyre heads and they look forward. Instead of the the left and right
>like most other fish. What are these called?

It's probably a not-very-good Celestial, the wild-type bodied ones tend
to have more forward-pointing eyes, as far as I've seen them; have a
look here:

http://www.bristol-aquarists.org.uk/goldfish/celest/celest.htm

towards the bottom of the page are a couple of photographs of celestials
with wild-type bodies, taken in a pet-shop. Or it could be a globe-eye
with the wild-type body, but from your description I think celestial is
more likely.
--
sophie
hopeless newbie.