Can you help me ID this goldfish?

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GrkGumby12

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It was sold to me very young as an oranda which i wanted but I'm starting to believe that it's not, any help?
 

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looks like a fantail fancy
there also known to get swimmers bladder
feed them lots of frozen peas
 
It's a calico fantail. Watch out that common goldie gets huge and it's not recommended to keep single tail goldies like commons and comets with slower large bodied multi tails fancies. That common can outcompete the fancies for food and often times if commons get aggressive it's the fancies that get picked on.
 
Agreed on the fantail although his dorsal line/penduncle is oddly shaped. The common in the tank may present issues though unless its a huge tank. They easily grow 12-18inches.
 
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