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Diesel,
Just to start with... I am not an expert.

However, the gold fish is not a shellcracker, aka red ear sunfish (RES). RES have a little red (males) or orange (females) on the end of the dark coloration of the gill plate. It looks like a female bluegill (BG) that lacks full coloration.