Telescope goldfish chubby5/16/2023 So extra care is needed on the food to feed and also not to overfeed. Goldfish with this shape is prone to the swim bladder disease. The egg-shaped body of goldfish does come with a risk. These breeds will finish the food before the poor Telescope goldfish manages to swim over. ![]() Keeping it with streamlined bodied goldfish breeds such as common goldfish or comet is really bad idea. It is better to keep it with equally slow swimming goldfish such as Oranda, Ranchu, Lionhead, Bubble-eyes and Celestial eyes so that it has a chance to compete for food. Having an egg-shaped body also means that the Telescope goldfish is a slow swimming breed. For more information, please visit my disclosure page. Note: The following contain affiliate links. Like any goldfish, this breed will also grow very big when being taken care of properly.Įgg-shaped goldfish breeds can grow more than 6″ in body length, so please provide them with at least 20 gallons of swimming space for the first fish, and 10 gallons each for subsequent ones. This means that it is darn adorable with its chubby look and wobbly swimming style. Telescope goldfish has a rounded egg-shaped body. So you may want to reconsider putting things with sharp edges in your tank. □ What you need to worry about though… is whether this breed of goldfish is able to compete for food with their bad eyesight.īesides that, the eyes are also fragile and can easily be hurt. So no worries about Telescope goldfish looking and scrutinizing you. “The better to see you with, my dear.” part of the dialog doesn’t apply here. You would think with such big eyes, the Telescope goldfish will have very good vision, right? …WRONG!!! The fact is, this breed has very bad vision. When a telescope goldfish looks at you, you feel as if they are scrutinizing you up and down, left and right. The sockets look like 2 huge domes or globes which the large eyes sit in. Well, the protruding eyes are definitely the distinctive characteristic about Telescope goldfish. This goldfish which looks as if it is wearing a badass biker’s goggles is known as Telescope goldfish. In the early 1700s, a new goldfish breed with protruding eyes was born in China. ![]() Since then, more and more selective breeding were done to enhance specific characteristics, creating a lot of goldfish breeds that we are familiar with. This new breed of fish is the common goldfish. Long long time ago, the dull Prussian carps were selectively bred to create a new breed of fish with more interesting coloring on the body. Yes, the eyes on this breed of goldfish are definitely the highlight, but there are more about Telescope goldfish than… well, meets the eye. I am sorry if this doesn’t make sense to you but I get reminded of it every time I see or think about Telescope goldfish. “G randmother, oh, what big eyes you have,”ĭo you remember this dialog? If not, a little hint – It is something that you probably had come across during your childhood… rings a bell?Īnyway, this dialog is from the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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