What kind of fish are these?

Question

Just wondering.

We recently got a bunch of supposedly tropical fish from a breeder. Most of them seem to be some sort of goldfish. Orange with a little black, but a few of them are black with white speckles or red with a few black blotches..

I don't have a camera with me at the moment. Sorry.

The black&white ones look like they could be dalmation mollies, but mollies don't seem to come in the vibrant red some of my fish do.

Answer 1

Can you get some pictures? There are plenty of fish out there with goldfish colours, that aren't goldfish. If they're tropical fish, they aren't goldfish.

Fancy goldfish: http://www.aquariumfish.net/images_01/oranda_red_and_black.jpg

Black moors: http://www.liveaquaria.com/images/products/large/p_blackmoor.jpg
?

Some other fish are mollies. They are tropical livebearers but can have orange, white, black...
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/16077Dalm.jpg
http://www.greenparktropical.com/Fish/images/Molly/Red%20Marble%20Balloon%20Sailfin%20Molly.jpg

Anyway, if they're fancies, they need 20 gallons of water each, just fyi.

Answer 2

I have orange mollies in my tank, one of my fathers is really nasty orange with ugly yellow eyes. I get my hands on different coloured ones to certainly filter out the gene pool. I've personally seen dalmation mollies appear in orange with black marble patterns across its body. Myself.. I dislike the marble/dalmation patterns and stay away from them. This is only because i prefer the look of the solid coloured ones, and it is easier to identify gravidity in females if they are lacking pigment on their bellies, namely black spots all across it :)

Swordtails often come with odd little marking on them, however you wont find Marble Swordtails. So I'm fairly sure it'd be a molly fish that you are keeping.

What type of jaw structure does it have? Inferior: An adaptation for bottom feeding. Superior which means a weak lower jaw projecting beyond the upper with adaptation for surface feeding? Or a Terminal jaw, which is a plain simple mouth at the tip of your fish.

By simply letting us know the jaw type of your fish surely we will be able to provide a more adequte & educated answer for this question.

Edit: During my typing popular trend states you own a Dalmation Molly.

Answer 3

They are gold fish theres alot of different types of gold fish i have the same fish and i thought they were some other fish but the oet store told me they are just another type of gold fish

Answer 4

I think they are Mollys tell me if I'm right

Answer 5

don't know much about fish.
A picture would help.
it might still be a gold fish.

Why do you want to know?

Answer 6

can you take a pic?