DORSALLED POMPONS

Adult pompons with dorsal fins and Far Eastern finnage

These fish are oriental twintails with long finnage, deeply forked tails and relatively shallow body depth, bearing the frilly nasal septa development.

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Orange fish shown at GSGB 2005, with large nasal septa; ideally, these would be the same size as each other.

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metallic pompon

Chocolate fish with red-black head and smaller, red nasal septa and a slight hood. Shown at GSGB 2005.

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Chocolate fish with red nasal septa. Shown at BAS 2011.

On Chinese goldfish websites, you will see pompons with and without the dorsal fin, and with short fins (fantail type) and long fins (veiltail/ryukin type). The Western standard is for the fantail type.

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