goldfish - good ones

Subject: goldfish - good ones Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:06 pm

I'll most likely burn you all out over the next couple of days with the pictures and videos

From goldfish video

I'll post pictures of the fish farm in a day or so

Rick

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:41 pm

I for one always enjoy seeing pics of well-kept fish.

Those are some of the nicest fancy goldfish I've seen pics of in a long time, Rick. Never have been into goldies myself, and not real up on the terminology of the different shapes and varieties.

So I'll ask ya a question or two. What are the ones that have the big bellies and hunched backs, ya have one video with the two orange ones and the other video with several white and orange ones (the first video above)? Heck, they may even by different varieties for all I know, LOL. I know they have been line-bred that way, but do they end up with a lot of intestinal and/or swim bladder complications? It sure looks like everything is kind of crammed in there and may be a little awkwardly placed. What have ya been feedin' 'em? Like I said, very nice looking fish.

Ivan, a.k.a. WYite

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Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:22 am

Wow thay are some nice goldies!

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Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:29 am

From fishroom

Here are a few of the fishroom / growout houses and a few filter/water change system

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:24 am

Wow! Nice fish and the fish room...well...what can I say...I HATE YOU...j/k Wink

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:59 am

Wyomingite wrote:

I for one always enjoy seeing pics of well-kept fish.

Those are some of the nicest fancy goldfish I've seen pics of in a long time, Rick. Never have been into goldies myself, and not real up on the terminology of the different shapes and varieties.

So I'll ask ya a question or two. What are the ones that have the big bellies and hunched backs, ya have one video with the two orange ones and the other video with several white and orange ones (the first video above)? Heck, they may even by different varieties for all I know, LOL. I know they have been line-bred that way, but do they end up with a lot of intestinal and/or swim bladder complications? It sure looks like everything is kind of crammed in there and may be a little awkwardly placed. What have ya been feedin' 'em? Like I said, very nice looking fish.

Ivan, a.k.a. WYite

The livestock with the hunched backs are Ryukins, by goldfish standards a relative new breed maybe only a 50 to 100 years old that is Chinese in origin. These fish are predisposed to swim bladder "Tip Over" (swimming head down). The Trick with raising good fancy Goldfish is in the culling process. At the first sign that a fish my have a SB problem he goes to the S2BU tank. I only raise 100 to 200 fish a year that will grade AA(show quality) The Cull rate is about 90 to 95% that doesn't mean these fish are destroyed the A and B grade fish are raised to 1" size and sold to LFS, all C grade are use as feeders.About 50% will be feeder fish by 14 days old.These are use to conditions my breeders. The other big thing is Water Quality. I can not begin to explain the important of good water this translates into about 15% per day in the water change department.Levels for the big 3 are always in the 0,0,0 range with the pH @7.8
AS far as what I feed:
1) Bulk pellet
2) A home made gel food that is veggy based
3) Livefood

And that about it as far as raise them but you have to start with the very best stock you can get your hands on

Rick

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:20 pm

Great pics!

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Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:07 am

WOW!

That is an awesome setup you have assembled there Rick! Not to mention the quality of the fish! Very inspiring!

Congratulations on a job well done! Labor of love, I am sure!

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:34 am

WaterChangeWarrior wrote:

WOW!

That is an awesome setup you have assembled there Rick! Not to mention the quality of the fish! Very inspiring!

Congratulations on a job well done! Labor of love, I am sure!

It's a on going project that started almost 20 years ago.
Little did I know that I would never finish it
I would really like to redo the fishroom in the next couple of years.
It's very user friendly but not very pretty and with Dear Wife thing need to be pretty

Rick

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:14 am

Looks like a little personal plot of paradise to me!

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:58 am

It looks pretty to me... Smile

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S2BU tank! Bwahahaha. Glad I'm not the only one that has a few of those. Wink

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:15 am

That is great...I bet you are proud of your acomplishments...They look great!

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Subject: New bloodline Sat May 15, 2010 12:02 pm

New bloodline from China got here today 7F and 3M
Video not very good

Rick

Subject: Re: goldfish - good ones Sat May 15, 2010 10:49 pm

Looking good!!!

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