Butterfly parents yet babies look like goldfish?

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We have three large butterfly koi one female two male. We put these three in a soft side kiddie pool to breed them and the babies don't have barbels. A few have nice colors, many orange, many dark. The babies are shaped more like a goldfish than a koi. Is one of our parents a koi/goldfish hybrid? Kinda disappointed because two years ago we got five babies like the parents that are beautiful.
 

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Good question but I only have goldfish so don't know if it's possible that koi could start out w/o the barbels. Wait.......I just looked online and it says they get them after around 2 wks old or so and then it even says those fall off and they get new ones: https://aboutbackyard.com/koi-barbels/ So I am learning as I go here too :happy:
 
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They do change color with age, and barbels can get bigger. Wait and see what they look like as they get older.
 

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