ORANDA - FURTHER IMAGES

Here are some further images of orandas. Click the links above or to the left to return to the main oranda page.

Chocolate oranda

chocolate oranda
chocolate oranda chocolate oranda

There is a growing number of self-coloured fish ('blues', browns, blacks, yellows, and such like) now being imported, this being a reflection of the enormous variety of orandas bred in China. The chocolate remains one of the early favourites.

These fish were shown at BAS 2002, and make a regular appearance on the show benches. These are typical Far Eastern fish: note the lack of depth in the body, the well forked tail and the shorter fins, compared with the more developed strains below.

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Red-white metallic orandas

red-white metallic oranda
red-white metallic oranda

Note the deeper body, the less forked tail and the longer fins in these British strains, compared with the chocolate orandas above.

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