I suspect most of us keep Ranchu in our tank.

But myself have Ryukins and Orandas too.

Tell us which varieties of goldfish you currently have at home.

Just one oranda right now that's driving me absolutely NUTS...but I'm sure my list will gradually get bigger as I find more nice ones around here.

Oh and btw I kept goldfish, all varieties, since I was 10 so I'm not new to this, everytime I say I have one fish people think it's my first fish LOL However I don't consider myself a good goldfish keeper yet and I'm still educating myself.

due to space constrain.. else i would like to keep every single variety.. except tosakin

There you go again with the anti Tosakin remark LOL .... don't be a hater.

hmm... why do you guys hate tosakin? any reasons? expensive? ugly side view fish? difficult to rear?

BTW, I really head over heels with short tail ryukins... they are my favourites... currently I've got about 30 of them...

Uh uh... not me, I love Tosakin. So cute they way they wiggle to swim.

they r a clumsy fish imho.. more like picture perfect kinda fish
well.. i've only seen 2 of them so far only though

In addition to ranchu, short-tail ryukins, I also have lionchu, sakura ryukin.

how about Wakin, Jikin, Tosakin??

classified under "Other goldfish".

Why? You have them? Saw some Wakins the other day and I was quite tempted.

hehe.. don't.. i heard they grow big quite fast

If I recall correctly, the 6 inches long ones (with a super nice ranchu tails) costs just $8.

Luckily the LFS old man told me to buy at least ten wakins - "...they look nicer in a group like koi do."

I gave up the idea of keeping just one after that.

Was at Yung Feng (aquafauna) and saw some long-tails ranchu.

Also saw one Jikin but it's terrible looking; very coarse scales and the tails looks deformed. It costs $48 only, however.

Those "long-tails" ranchus are actually deformed celestial eyes. Ranchu has a shorter and fatter body!

Those Jikins are the real thing though... but low quality craps.

eih?? i thought those "long-tails" ranchus are actually called phoenix??

how about the Ultimate??

Tri coloured pearl scale dragon bubbled eyed butterfly ranchu with humpback and pompom!

Chey... no cheeks or wen; not ultimate enough leh.

plus a pair of barbels...

huh??
AROWANCHU??

can can....

and plus electric current... ELECTRIC AROWANCHU!!

Electric Arolionchu
best in singapore and jb

And Batam

Got 2 tanks. 3ft and 4ft with ranchus only.

C'mon!

As it is now, more people are keeping topview ranchus then sideview ranchus.

I find that hard to believe.

Please don't tell me the reason why you keep topview is becoz they LOOK nice from the top? Isn't how they swim more important?

I have yet seen more than a handful of really nice "looking" topview ranchus anyway but many have very good sideview ranchus.

Have some of you guys fallen into the hype of "topviewing" but don't know what you're doing?

so it's better to buy those nice ranchu which are good in top view and at the same time good in side view... is this possible?

Yes CyberET has 1 that he posted. Nice top and Nice Side.
I would have hoot but he beat me to it.

dun know why... these days i'm into lionheads... have been trying to get some good ones...

Lionhead as in the chinese lionhead or the lionhead ranchus?

Anyone know what is the name in English for this goldfish. It has a fat round body. They call it 'chu lang' translate sound from Hokkien. These are the other goldfish I have.

Pearlscales goldfish.

http://www.uniongfishfarm.com/zz.htm

Good topview will also be good topview, as long as it is not too big.

This is only applicable for Thai criterion right?

A Jap topview would usually fail their sideview test if we go by a Thai standard. Similarly a Chinese ranchu would fail their topview test.

Why does Japanese topview fail the sideview test?

to my understanding, for a side view, the tail is seen entirely from the side, making it dropy if seen on top. Vice versa for the top view. will look like an aeroplane from the side.

So the side of the tails are not wide spread like in topview then, right?

not really a good specimen

Should the tail covers the ass fins so that they are not visible from the side?

good enough for me leh

personal preference...
for me i prefer it to be

Thank you all you bros very much. I have learned a lot this week.