Don’t think it’s some kind of parasite. I have a number of the goldies I’m looking after from a relatives pond with very similar lumps and bumps. They have cleared up a bit after 12 months in a warm tank but some still have them. I think lymphocystitis.
I have goldies and shubunkin in there (all long fin) and whilst they were outside for years through winters of -3 to -6 , now they are spending winters at 70 and summers at 78.
They fair perfectly ok with no ill effects and live quite happily alongside a couple of grow on koi, a team of bristlenose, two gymnogeophagus rhabdotus, an albino black shark and a couple of gibbiceps as long as the oxygen content is high, so plenty of turn over, airstones and splashing water. And of course it goes without saying , a huge pond style box filter!
Shubs are just as hardy and tolerant of both hot and cold as goldfish, or at least the ones here are.
Still on the lookout for a couple of true Bristol blue shubunkin. They are my fave just cos of the colour and the fin shapes. But I do hold my hand up, I keep the fancy goldfish too, including black moors, but nothing too weird, just various varieties of oranda.
Knew a guy who kept them outdoors through milder winters but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Since I have closed ten or so tropical tanks down in the colder half of the fish house I have found myself repurposing a few to goldfish tanks, then falling soft and heating them to 70 (as much for the bristlenose as the fancies) which I know sort of defeats the object!
I have goldies and shubunkin in there (all long fin) and whilst they were outside for years through winters of -3 to -6 , now they are spending winters at 70 and summers at 78.
They fair perfectly ok with no ill effects and live quite happily alongside a couple of grow on koi, a team of bristlenose, two gymnogeophagus rhabdotus, an albino black shark and a couple of gibbiceps as long as the oxygen content is high, so plenty of turn over, airstones and splashing water. And of course it goes without saying , a huge pond style box filter!
Shubs are just as hardy and tolerant of both hot and cold as goldfish, or at least the ones here are.
Still on the lookout for a couple of true Bristol blue shubunkin. They are my fave just cos of the colour and the fin shapes. But I do hold my hand up, I keep the fancy goldfish too, including black moors, but nothing too weird, just various varieties of oranda.
Knew a guy who kept them outdoors through milder winters but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Since I have closed ten or so tropical tanks down in the colder half of the fish house I have found myself repurposing a few to goldfish tanks, then falling soft and heating them to 70 (as much for the bristlenose as the fancies) which I know sort of defeats the object!
