Globe Eye Goldfish

<body bgcolor="#CCCCFF" background="../../back4.jpg" text="#0000FF" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" class="main"> <a name="top"></a> <p align="center" class="headlink"><br>| <a href="../../index.htm" target="_top">Home</a> | <a href="../goldfish.htm" target="_top">Back to Goldfish</a> |<br> </p> <h2 align="center">GLOBE EYE</h2> <p>The globe eye is comparatively rare in UK. It is now the only long-finned twintail for which the standard calls for a forked tail, as the oranda standard now calls for an unforked tail (as in the veiltail). The UK colour standard for metallic fish is self-coloured black, although self-coloured red fish are popular in other parts of the world and are occasionally seen in UK. The other colour group seen is calico fish, as illustrated below.</p> <p>Globe eyes are called dragon eyes in the Far East, and first appeared around 1592. They are called telescope eyes in USA.</p> <h3><a name="std">THE STANDARD</a></h3> <p>The globe eye standard is as follows: <ul> <li>Depth of body to be greater than 2/3rds of body length</li> <li>Eyes to be projecting from the surface of the head</li> <li>Dorsal fin to be single, all other fins to be paired, caudal fin to be divided</li> <li>Trailing edge of caudal fin to have a fork of 1/4 to 3/8ths of fin length</li> <li>Minimum length of caudal fin to be 3/4 of body length</li> <li>Extremities of fins to have a pointed appearance</li> </ul> <p>The fish should be bright and alert with the dorsal fin carried erect. The body should be short with a smooth outline. The caudal fin should be well divided. The eyes should be prominent and well matched. Good quality fish will have high colour intensity extending into the fins.</p> <p>Note that the eyes are not the same type as on the broadtail moor, they should be truncated cones, not spherical.</p> <p>The colour may be metallic or calico:</p> <ul> <li>Metallic fish should be black only, without a trace of brown or silver, and with the pigmentation extending throughout the finnage giving a velvet appearance <li>Calico fish should have a blue background with patches of violet, red, orange, yellow and brown, spotted with black </ul> <p>Ideal profiles are illustrated below:</p> <table cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align=center valign=middle><img src="standard1.gif" width="200" height="201" border="0" alt="globe eye standard, side view"></td> <td align=center valign=middle><img src="standard2.gif" width="200" height="104" border="0" alt="globe eye standard, top view"></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center">[<a href="#top">Top</a>]</p> <h3><a name="pho">THE FISH</a></h3> <h4>Young and adult globe eyes</h4> <p align="center"><img src="red_globe_eye_2003.jpg" alt="red metallic globe eye" width="350" height="250" border="0"></p> <p>Young adult red metallic globe eye with very fine self-colouration (BAS 2003).</p> <table width="0%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td><img src="young_globe_eyes_1999.jpg" alt="young calico globe eyes" width="275" height="180" border="0"></td> <td><img src="globe_eye_2002.jpg" alt="large adult globe eye" width="275" height="180" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Left: young calico globe eyes (breeder's team of four, BAS 1999). Right: large, mature adult variegated red-white metallic globe eye (BAS 2002).</p> <table width="0%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td><img src="Chinese_globe_eye_2003-3.jpg" alt="young Chinese globe eye" width="275" height="180" border="0"></td> <td><img src="Chinese_globe_eye_2003-1.jpg" alt="large adult Chinese globe eye" width="275" height="180" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Chinese red-white metallic globe eyes: young fish on the left with <a href="../jikin/jikin.htm" target="_top">jikin</a>-style colouration and large, broad-finned adult on the right. (Photographed in Hong Kong, 2003).</p> <h4>Young adult globe eyes, calico colouration</h4> <table width="0%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td><img src="globe_eye_2001a.jpg" width="275" height="180" alt="globe eye" border="0"></td> <td><img src="globe_eye_2001b.jpg" width="275" height="180" alt="globe eye" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>This fish was shown at BAS 2001; it is a fine shape but ideally could have more colouration on the body and particularly on the head.</p> <table width="0%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td><img src="Chinese_globe_eye_2003-2a.jpg" width="275" height="180" alt="globe eye" border="0"></td> <td><img src="Chinese_globe_eye_2003-2b.jpg" width="275" height="180" alt="globe eye" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Chinese calico globe eyes with nice, rounded finnage, very similar in size and shape to the British fish above. (The British standard calls for a taller dorsal and longer, more pointed pectoral, pelvic and anal fins as in the veiltail). (Hong Kong, 2003).</p> <p align="center">[<a href="../goldfish.htm" target="_top">Back</a>]    [<a href="#top">Top</a>]<br>© Bristol Aquarists' Society<br> </p> </body>