Ranchu 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="ranchu.htm" target="_top">Back to Ranchu</a> | <a href="../goldfish.htm" target="_top">Back to Goldfish</a> |<br> </p> <h3 align="center">CHINESE RANCHU</h3> <p align="center">Photographed in Hong Kong, December 2003</p> <h4>Red metallic ranchu</h4> <p align="center"><img src="ranchu3.jpg" alt="red Chinese ranchu" width="400" height="265" border="0"></p> <p>Typical, high-quality Chinese ranchu with very good colouration and hood growth, and a very smooth, well curved dorsal contour.</p> <h4>Red-and-white ranchu</h4> <p align="center"><img src="ranchu4.jpg" alt="Chinese red-white and black ranchu" width="400" height="265" border="0"></p> <p>Ranchu with red head and white body, white head and red body, and variegated red-white colouration; the quality of the colour patterns is very high (balanced patternation, front-and-rear and left-right). Also calico and self-coloured black ranchu.</p> <h4>Lionhead amongst various ranchu</h4> <p align="center"><img src="ranchu2.jpg" alt="Chinese lionhead and ranchu" width="400" height="265"></p> <p>Bottom centre is a red <a href="../lionhead/lionhead.htm" target="_top">lionhead</a> amongst various ranchu, providing an opportunity to distinguish the two types: the lionhead has a flatter dorsal contour and an obtuse angle of join with the upper lobes of the tail fin at the caudal peduncle (see <a href="../info/info.htm" target="_top">Glossary</a>).</p> <p>In fact, breeders report that both ranchu and lionheads can be obtained from a single spawning from the same parents, illustrating that there is a continuum of form seen in these types.</p> <h4>Calico and red-white ranchu</h4> <p align="center"><img src="ranchu1.jpg" alt="Chinese calico and red-white ranchu" width="400" height="265" border="0"></p> <p>Notice the balance of colour in the calico fish and the balance of pattern in the red-white metallic fish.</p> <p align="center">[<a href="oranda.htm" target="_top">Back</a>]    [<a href="#top">Top</a>]<br>© Bristol Aquarists' Society<br> </p> </body>