Biggest Goldfish?

[goldies]

Hello guys! Is this true? I really want to own a huge Goldfish...

Is there goldfish that grows up as big as this?

Here is it: Biggest Goldfish

 

[bassbonediva]

If you're looking at true carp, they get to be as much as 80lbs.

Cyprinus carpio, or the common koi can reach 4 feet in length if housed properly in an outdoor pond that is large enough for them.

 

[littletankbigworld]

Only buy a goldfish if you know how to cycle and maintain a coldwater outdoor pond and research the topic thoroughly. Goldfish are poop machines and I could only imagine how large of a pond a goldfish that long would require...probably somewhere around a couple thousand gallons of water.

 

[Fishman1995]

We have had an outdoor pond before for our common goldfish. We used 3 filters and it was about 10 feet in diameter. Now that was for 5 common goldfish (when we removed them and rehomed them there were 15 goldfish ^^ ) I cant imagine how large of an outdoor pond you'd have to have to properlly house one of these monster's your talking about

 

[aakaakaak]

It's a carp, not a normal goldfish. Yes, it's a real fish. It weighed about 30 lbs.

 

[Newman]

and fish like that need lake -size bodies of water to grow that big.
have fun diggin your own personal lake in you backyard for the next 5 years if you do it manually.

 

[aakaakaak]

He'd need a backhoe and it would still take five years.

 

[Newman]

I am not trying to be insulting btw, I've personally wished that I had my own lake with giant carp too Fishing for them is a lot of fun!

 

[aakaakaak]

My grandpa has about three small backhoe created lakes on his property up in Washington. It's one of the few reasons I wish I lived on the west coast. It's taken him the better part of 10+ years to cultivate that property. It took him about five of those years from keeping the local wildlife from cleaning out his stocked manmade lakes. I think he eventually gave up.

If I could, I would.

 

[Newman]

haha, how big were they? like full blown lakes or just a pond where stuff like catfish might live w/o overloading the water?

 

[goldies]

Thank You all guys!