"Gfishery" wrote in message
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"Ed VanDyke" wrote in message
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He/she is probably just developing mature coloring. Many goldfish will
be
widely varied in their coloring as juveniles, but as they grow up they
will
become completely orange. I bought 4 feeders of all different colors
and
patterns. Every one of them is solid orange now.

I did the same 'mistake' once and bought a couple of very cute and black
orange gold fish once and thought that they would stay that color. They
dont, they just look funny until they get their 'normal' orange color, but
when I started with the goldfish's I didn't know that...


Would a 2mm-wide black lining along the entire edge of my orange fantail's
caudal fin and a 1mm-wide black lining along it's dorsal
fin be able to disappear in just 3 weeks as a result of maturing?
I though these color changes take quite a bit of time to develop.

That sounds like the fish has recovered from amonia burn in th past, you
sometimes see that if the edges of the fins has become damaged by finrot or
amonia burns, when the tissue grows back it starts out black and then turns
orange over a couple of weeks...


My 2nd fantail (Clinton) is completely orange now and looks just like my
first fantail (Carter).

You named them :-)


/Morten