Oranda 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="oranda.htm" target="_top">Back to Oranda</a> | <a href="../goldfish.htm" target="_top">Back to Goldfish</a> |<br> </p> <h3 align="center">CHINESE CALICO AND VARIEGATED ORANDAS</h3> <p align="center">Photographed in Hong Kong, 2003, 2006 and 2010</p> <h4>Variegated red-white orandas </h4> <table width="0" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="center"><img src="red-white_orandas-1.jpg" alt="red-white orandas" width="350" height="250" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="red-white_orandas-2.jpg" alt="red-white orandas" width="400" height="260" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>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.</p> <p align="center"><img src="red-white_orandas-3.jpg" alt="red-white orandas" width="350" height="240" border="0"></p> <p>Red-white variegated orandas, some also with black colouring. Photographed in Hong Kong 2007.</p> <h4>Calico orandas</h4> <table width="0%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="calico_orandas1.jpg" alt="calico orandas" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> <td><img src="calico_oranda.jpg" alt="calico oranda" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Typical Far Eastern calico orandas with superb calico colouration and shorter, rounder finnage with forked tails.</p> <h4>Red and black orandas</h4> <table width="0%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="red_and_black_oranda.jpg" alt="red-black oranda" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> <td><img src="black_orandas.jpg" alt="black orandas" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Nearly all young goldfish have much black colouration and lose it as they mature, but these strains retain the black colouration into adulthood.</p> <h4>Tricolour orandas</h4> <table width="0%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="black_white_red-oranda.jpg" alt="tricolour oranda (black-white-red)" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> <td><img src="black_white_red-orandas.jpg" alt="tricolour orandas (black-white-red)" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><img src="black_and_white_orandas.jpg" alt="tricolour orandas (black-white-brown)" width="400" height="285" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>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.</p> <p align="center">[<a href="oranda.htm" target="_top">Back</a>]    [<a href="#top">Top</a>]<br> © Bristol Aquarists' Society<br>  </p> </body>