CHINESE CALICO AND VARIEGATED ORANDAS

Photographed in Hong Kong, 2003, 2006 and 2010

Variegated red-white orandas

red-white orandas
red-white orandas

Variegated red-white metallic orandas, close to the Western standards for body shape and finnage but with deeply forked tails. Photographed in Hong Kong 2010.

red-white orandas

Red-white variegated orandas, some also with black colouring. Photographed in Hong Kong 2007.

Calico orandas

calico orandas calico oranda

Typical Far Eastern calico orandas with superb calico colouration and shorter, rounder finnage with forked tails.

Red and black orandas

red-black oranda black orandas

Nearly all young goldfish have much black colouration and lose it as they mature, but these strains retain the black colouration into adulthood.

Tricolour orandas

tricolour oranda (black-white-red) tricolour orandas (black-white-red)
tricolour orandas (black-white-brown)

Rare tricolour orandas, black-white-red in the top two pictures and black-white-brown in the bottom picture (together with black-and-red orandas). These tricolour fish are gradually becoming more available.

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