Hallo Forum

At first, thank you for registration.

I will show you some small blue fantail, and one orange mat fantail bred by myself.
Here in Germany you can not get quality goldfish, so, during 2 years i bred these fantail from no quality goldfish, a sad condition - never i have seen such quality goldfish here in Germany like yours

If you are interests, you can see more

Blue Fantail

Orange Fantail

I would be very pleased, if someone in Europe can sell 2 or 3 Ranchu of good quality. Ranchu are unfortunately hardly available in Germany.

Regards
Guenther

Nice decor , how often you need to replenish those background grass and plants?

I never replenish the plants, the plants like vallisneria, aponogeton, anubias, echinodorus... and other plants are more then 3 years old and i have to cut them ~ every 2-3 weeks

Regards
Geunther

Guten Tag!

Welcome to RG
You have done a great job in breeding your own fan tails with limited resources and undocumented bloodline.Great video with nice deco and landscaping

Danke schon :

goldrush

You may wish to try and contact Mr Geert Coppens, a ranchu breeder who lives in Belgium and also a honorary member of this forum.

I think he is busy culling his fries by the thousands at this moment.His ranchus are definately of good quality.

http://www.rafflesgold.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2245

goldrush, : for your complements

Thanks for your answer, I will try to contact

Your nick surely remind me of the great German football player of the 70's: Gunther Netzer

By the way do you keep only fantails?

Hi Guenther,

A warm welcome to our forum!

I like seeing breeders from different parts of the world coming to here and sharing their experiences. This time from an unlikely place like Germany (The Germans are very famous for breeding discus).

You have a logo of Shubunkin. Do you breed shubunkin too?

I hope that you'll have a good time here.

Hi, Geunther,
This came as a real surprise to me goldfish are known nibble and the plants with them usually could not live long. Did you inject CO2 and having strong lighting to encourage plant growth...Mind sharing more about your tank setup

Very nice looking fantails, Guenther! Any chance of them having ryukin blood? (seeing they're a little "humpy" )

Hi Guenther,

The blue not as good. but the mat orange is nice. keep this orange fellow well.

sorry can't help you much in term of goldfish purchase, I got no idea how's the ornamental fish industry there.

Yes, it's right.

First I bred with these fishes



then I selected theses fishes



and in the moment, the result are the blue fishes from video and the red-white-blue fishes you can see in my gallery, some are more fantail or ryukin

regards

Yes, I use bio-co2


with co2 reaktor



intern bio-foam filter


after ~ 1 year


but no strong light

Today, in the evening, I will make new pictures for you, ok?

But often I give to my goldfish cooked salat, so they only nibble a little bit at plants

Regards

No, some of my fishes I show you in my gallery...

Regards

Guenther,
Thks for sharing , you got the most well decor tank I have seen so far eye-opener for me to really witness a well planted tank mixed with goldfish ..More pictures, overview of front and side of tank would be much appreciated!

Ok, I hope, show you tomorrow new pictures

These tank is a tank with youg shubunkin, now in these tank are some of the fantail I bred



Regards

Noticed the condition of water is tip-top...Care to further share some tips on upkeeing a crystal clear water and preventing algae bloom...Also, what's your maintenance schedule and did you measure the water parameters, e.g. PH,.....
Upkeeping must not be easy for you, in view of the sands and numerous plants you have

Here you can see 3 of my 7 tanks

Beautiful. The calico color seem to blend very well with the background.

In some tanks I use "Eheim-Ecco-Filter", in other tanks I use bio-foam filter.
So, I use in my 330L tank only bio-foam with 600L/ hour pump



I do nothing than waiting some days, reducing the light.
Algae bloom I only found in new tanks without good bacteria in filter and sand and too many fishes ;)



Every week I change ~60 percent from water, cut the plants, clean the glasses
~ all 3 month cleaning the filter
pH~ 7-7.5 , kH ~ 5, nitrat ~ 20-50 mg/l, no nitrit, no ammonia



Oh no. Look at the 260 L tank. The plants now grow there 2 years, the sand is not interesting for me.
With a hose I change the water und fill the tanks, during this time drinking a glas red wine