Feeder Fish, mainly becuase they are often used to feedbigger pets, like turtles.
No they are not goldfish
There is a variety of goldfish from fantails, ryukins, moors, ribbontail, veiltail, orandas, bubbleeye, telescope, common, koi, comets, just to name a few.
Yes they are different variations/varieties of the same species.
Yes, they do quite well together, I have both Comets and Shubunkin in a pond and they are very happy.
Comet goldfish- they're the most common because they're "feeder fish." Comets also get most deceases.
Two: There's commons and comets (Comets have longer fins). These are generally excluded from the "fancy" category. If you see a sign in your pet store labelling a non-fancy goldfish as "shubunkin", that's just the coloration. It's either a common goldfish, or a comet-tailed one.
Usually, the variety sold at such places are comets, or fantails.
Not really... they are sold wherever comets are sold. They are common.
They are Goldfish and so they mature and breed as goldfish. They can be sexually mature at 1 year if they have been well housed and well looked after.
Shubunkin is just a fancy name given to a specifically coloured Goldfish. Breeding one with a Golden coloured goldfish will result in about 33% that look like a Shubunkin and 33% that look like a Golden coloured goldfish and 33% that look like a mixture of the two. The above results would only be accurate if the breeder fish are properly line bred and their lineage is guaranteed. Otherwise you could get anything from coloured goldfish to uncoloured goldfish and a mixture of any kind of goldfish including Comets, Fantails and Veiltails.
Cleo is the name of Geppetto's goldfish Cleo
the latin name for goldfish is carassius auratus