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Posted by: GA Secretary Sun, 26 Sep 2004 4:40 pm

Here's a video of my new 12 cm (mouth to end of tails) ranchu.



Direct Link: http://rafflesgold.dyndns.org/~rg/images/0409/ga037small.mov

Apple QuickTime Movie - 832Kb

I think it's quite nice, and appreciate your views.

Posted by: Frankie Sun, 26 Sep 2004 5:11 pm

冻未掉！

好酷啊！

以后看不到，我该怎能办？

How much? Where buy it?

TELL ME!!!!!

Posted by: Frankie Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:10 pm

Wow! Cool clip!!!
STEADY AH!

This is overall, a very good ranchu. Curvature, wens, tail/fins, colour, etc, fit in the traits of a AAA/show grade ranchu.

The only problem I find is the little uphump after the head. But it is not so obvious. I supposed if you groom it's wens, it will be covered up.

nice nice... long time never see such good ranchu. Keep it coming.

Posted by: Frankie Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:10 pm

wah...
you use homing decive to track the fish with camera??

Posted by: GA Secretary Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:25 am

Beside the little hump on its back and near the head, a scale on its back is also out of alignment with the rest. I suspect it is a replacement scale as it is less orangy in colour. Sorry. I'm being picky. The problem is I don't think there's anything I can do about it!

Oh... I have to watch the diet (in every sense. wink.) and hope I learn how to groom a muscular ranchu. Anyone any tips?

Posted by: GA Secretary Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:25 am

Haha. I was lucky I caught it spinning as if showing off.

Posted by: GA Secretary Sat, 02 Oct 2004 9:13 am

Small update.

I woke up early this morning to find eggs all over the tank floor which confirmed this is a female ranchu.

But I'm also writing to say the ranchu is kept in a 50 litres QT tank all by itself and it has no trouble releasing the eggs despite the absence of a male ranchu. Hope this proves once and for all that act is possible. It also means my QT tank's water has been good (has 300+ grams of salt.)

It losts a scale, probably as a result of it ramming against the only object in the tank, an air-stone. Sigh.

After changing water, I handspawn her to release the balance eggs still within her to find little are left.

She's doing fine.

Oh, while handspawning, I found her ovary track extruding by 3-4mm; she grew a penis. Perhaps this is a sign of self-spawn?

Posted by: Frankie Sat, 02 Oct 2004 9:56 am

Careful when handspawning a female with "penis". It's likely the ovary track is already stretched and fragile.

Posted by: GA Secretary Sat, 04 Dec 2004 3:37 pm

UPDATE:

After a little over 2 months, this gal gained an inch measuring 14.5 cm now.

It has never touched green water throughout this period.

Beside the gain in length, I noted a smaller, less pronounced cheeks and minimal change in her wen. I attribute the slow growth to restricted diet.

Nevertheless it's a healthy active ranchu.





I think she isn't complete and still has rooms to grow.

Does she look fat or fit?

Posted by: Frankie Sun, 05 Dec 2004 7:44 am

she looks.. erm..
looks better when u first got it, as compared to now

Posted by: The Matrix Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:59 am

hmmmm ... I won't agree more.


Matrix

Posted by: GA Secretary Sun, 05 Dec 2004 4:30 pm

I feel she still looks okay although she seems to look different from last time.

But i'm curious how different you think it is. Please write.

Posted by: Frankie Sun, 05 Dec 2004 5:23 pm

the missing boxing glove would give initial feelin of something is different..

Posted by: Frankie Mon, 06 Dec 2004 7:59 am

it was more "fit", color & features were much better

maybe a recent video would allow for better assessment

Posted by: Frankie Tue, 07 Dec 2004 6:04 pm

the wen has deteriorated by quite a bit. i don't see a fitter fish, nor has the color intensified.

features improved????? where got.....

the fish is going downhill.

Posted by: GA Secretary Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:37 am

Thanks guys for your feed back.

The seemingly smaller cheeks are an obvious difference but I was more concerned on her buldging tummy. So i put her on a diet (yet) again.

But 哇咔, where did you read the "features improved" claim from?

Anyway, I'm happy to write today I finally figured out why she is so out of shape:-



Yeah... she was full of eggs lah!

Luckily she managed to release some eggs by herself this morning and I have hand spawn the rest. She must have kept them for some weeks!

i should find her a male companion.

Posted by: GA Secretary Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:48 pm

Here's a video as requested that I shot shortly after emptying her eggs.



Direct Link: http://RafflesGold.dyndns.org/~rg/images/0409/ga037-1small.mov 691 KB

Posted by: Frankie Fri, 10 Dec 2004 1:05 pm

with the video.. i only see color and size improvement
features seems to deteriorate abit

Posted by: Frankie Fri, 10 Dec 2004 1:06 pm

take note of my comments.. i mentioned was
not now.. meaning the fish has taken a step backwards in development except color and size

Posted by: Frankie Sat, 11 Dec 2004 6:50 am

oops, pardon my english. my mistake in reading

Posted by: mrchoco Sat, 11 Dec 2004 7:41 am

no doubt the cheeks part have gone down a bit. the top part of the wen has had some growth. colour there has been improvement on the head. good that this fish as grown like what you said.

mrchoco