butterfly telescope goldfish breeders 2018

#Butterfly telescope goldfish breeders 2018 update#

At that time, the Pearlscale was of the old style. I remembered my childhood day when I had a Pearlscale in my tank. That is the reason I avoided breeding Pearlscale.īut Pearlscale was always in my heart. The fishes that developed that bubble seemed to suffer. I do not find such disease in other goldfish varieties. In my three attempts to keep them (and to breed them once), all of them ended up developing bubble-like disease in their bodies. One type of goldfish that I avoided in the twenty years of my breeding activity is the Pearlscale. Concerning the color, let the reader be the judge. The middle tail does not split (but invisible from the side viewing). I thought the melanin pigment will go away when the fish grows up. My surprise comes from the melanin showing up in the combination in the form of blue and black spots. I cannot say it is nice, but surely it is an interesting combination when combined with the white color.

I must do some editing to try to bring out the real color. However, it is a bit hard to capture in camera. The yellow color is pale, but it is clearly yellow. One become Sakura with strong red color, one is a black and white fish, another one is a color between yellow and orange, and the best one is clearly yellow with white and black / blue spots! This last one is what I am interested in. I was left with only four fishes, which grow into different colors. Too bac, most of the offspring have single tail and I must cull them out. I had a chance to inbreed the F1 this January. I mated my Yellow Oranda (metallic scale) with a Calico Oranda. Can the fish be clearly differentiated from the common Calico Oranda and its variations? In fact, I have a doubt about its market acceptance. I did this out of curiosity to satisfy my imagination. I nickname the variant as the Yellow Sakura Oranda. Now my task is to improve the quality of the fish in terms of its headgrowth, body shape, and tail.Ī side project in this Yellow Adventure is to create Yellow and White Transparent Scale Oranda. This variant falls in the category of Metallic Scale. My main project is to create Yellow Oranda (or better, Yellow and White Oranda), which I have succeeded. Yellow Color in goldfish is a fascinating project for me due to its rarity. At this point, I can not do anything other than waiting for them to mature sexually.

#Butterfly telescope goldfish breeders 2018 update#

So much is the update of my Cow Ranchu project. Hopefully my future projects will give me a more solid answer. And this is also the offspring of Cow Ranchu! I begin to speculate that the making of Cow Ranchu might involve metallic scale fish! Perhaps a wild color one, or even black ranchu! Well, this is still my guess. Yes, this is a wild color metallic ranchu. The black marks in the 1st fish tend to be whole, forming a large block, while the black marks of the 2nd fish tend to be in the shape of dots. The behavior of the black markings look different, also.

The 1st fish has totally black eyes, just like her father. If we examine the 2nd fish closely and compare it with the 1st, we will see that the eyes are different. This 2nd fish looks closer to the second lineage I keep. From this observation, I conclude that there are more than one lineage of Cow Ranchu in the market. I am sorry I have not taken pictures of the 2nd type of Cow Ranchu. And they look different from my first purchase. During this two years I bought some more Cows from different lineage. I have a suspicion that this fish is not the offspring of my first ranchu I posted above. I am certain this black dots will also grow. Yes, it has red color, which make her unqualified to be called Cow. This tail type hinders the fish to swim well. The tail of this fish is too wide and flat. It will take another two months or more for her to start producing eggs. I am excited to see what she will become. Based on my experience with the parent, the black marking will continue to grow. The black marking is visible clearly from the top. The other three are promising, though they are far from perfect. One does not count, since it is such an ugly fish though the color is decent. Well, after so many failures, I currently have four offspring. I was thinking about trying to breed him one more time, pairing him with his own offspring that show decent color. Last week I lost the first Cow Ranchu I bought due to disease. Most of them are defected, either totally missing the anal fin or having ugly backbone. Not only it is rare to obtain the expected color, to get a decent body quality in the offspring needs lots of luck. I think it has been more than two years I have tried to breed Cow Ranchu but with no success. The Diary of a Goldfish Breeder 2023 (4).The Diary of a Goldfish Breeder 2023 (5).The Diary of a Goldfish Breeder 2023 (6).