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Here are some further images of orandas. Click the links above or to the left to return to the main oranda page.
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Chocolate orandas photographed in low light conditions, Hong Kong 2010.
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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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Young, well proportioned oranda with good red colour but lacking colour in the paired fin extremities, which is extremely common in twintail fish. Shown at BAS 2001.
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Note the deeper body, the less forked tail and the longer fins in these British strains, compared with the chocolate orandas above. Shown at BAS 2002.
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Young black-white-yellow, tricolour oranda shown at BAS 2004. See here (bottom of page) for black-white-red/brown tricolour orandas photographed in Hong Kong.