Goldfish Growth Expectancy

**Lady Hobbs** · 07-13-2009, 03:57 PM

We all read so often that people want to keep goldfish in a bowl. Or see the question: How many goldfish will "fit" in my 29 gallon tank? Perhaps this size chart will help answer those questions.

These are average sizes in inches that these fish may get. Be prepared and keep those big ones for ponds.

Common Goldfish 12 +
Comet Goldfish 12 +
Shubunkin Goldfish 10
Fantail Goldfish 6
Veiltail Goldfish 6-8
Celestial Goldfish 5-6
Bubble-Eye Goldfish 6-8
Calico Goldfish also called the Shubunkin
Butterfly Tail Goldfish 9
Telescope-Eye Goldfish 8
Ranchu Goldfish 6
Moor Goldfish 10
Oranda Goldfish 8-12
Lionhead Goldfish 6
Lionchu Goldfish 6
Pearlscale Goldfish 8
Ryukin Goldfish 4-6
Wakin Goldfish 10
Pom-Pon Goldfish 5
Jikin Goldfish 9

**KingFisher** · 07-13-2009, 04:00 PM

Great post Lady, this should help a lot of people.

**Wild Turkey** · 07-13-2009, 04:08 PM

Great post hobbsy! Now we have something to refer people to when they go to defend their choice of putting a comet in a 2 gal bowl.

**rich311k** · 07-13-2009, 04:10 PM

Excellent information!

**KingFisher** · 07-13-2009, 04:22 PM

I think this should be stickied.

**Wild Turkey** · 07-13-2009, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by KingFisher

I think this should be stickied.

I second that

**ikhwan57** · 11-21-2011, 02:02 PM

Best Article.

**ElizabethJKR** · 03-12-2012, 04:23 AM

It might also be helpful to have pictures of the different goldfish. Just so people don't have to keep going back and fourth between here and Google trying to figure out which goldfish are which.

Mainly I'm just lazy and think it might help other people.

**Lady Hobbs** · 03-22-2012, 04:56 PM

If people are too lazy to research the fish they are either buying or already own, then perhaps they should not have fish?

But here ya go. Took 3 seconds to do a Google Search.
http://www.desktopgoldfish.com/

We can not simply copy and paste photos from other forums without entering into copyright laws.