QUOTE(mountain @ Tue, 14 Dec 2004 8:20 am)
can we use Tan's fish and talk abt hoods development.
hmm.. most headgrowth are genetically linked.. if the parents doesn't have much wens or hoods.. the children ain't gonna have fantasic ones..
wens and headbulbs can be improved by pumping with BWs and high protein pellets. what abt hoods? same feeding methods?
or is it all connected as 1 headmass and once it grows.. you can't control .. just leave it to chance.. so far i have only seen just sideview ONE!! ranchu with LH-style headgrowth and it looks quite nice.
just abt to ask the same on hood and head development. if u see wee yap's ranchu offspring, some of them have better hood, wen than their parents. as such i doubt it is genetic.
for this piece BW was fed only once a day for one week. but i stopped after seeing a spate of diseases on my main tank and after the sudden death of my priced ranchu while i am overseas. i do not know if it is the contaminated BW but i stopped and dumped all the BW.
length wise, i don think it grow very much, i suspected it is due to the small tub of 30 litre per fish i ve for this one.

by the way i blasted it with 4 PL tubes every day.
Food wise, it is a mixed of cheap wheat gem taiwan/malaysia made bought from Petmart (one big pack at $4.5), Hikari Lionhead sinking and medigold pellets.
i don concoct my own food in case thats what u all are thinking....
recently i tried dried tubilex worms, but they will not touch it unless really hungry.
thank u for yr kind words, will vary the food to see if there is any improvement.