Showing posts with label nisai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nisai. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Nisai, Oya and Retired Breeders

Its the end of the summer and with the sun lower in the sky I find the angle of the light seems to just make the ranchu glow.  This is one of my 6x6 foot ponds .  If you want to keep Japanese ranchu please understand the best path to success is with the traditional method of 100% water changes.


Sunday, October 19, 2014

Spawn 3 of 2013. Photos from Oct 2014

These ranchu represent the entire group I kept from Spawn #3 of 2013.  I'm documenting the whole group as a way to see how ranchu that are selected as "most perfect in the group" at a young age can evolve over the course of growing into adults.  As these ranchu have now become oya age most exhibit strong swimming motion, superior body & high degree of balance but the problem with this group is unremarkable heads & wen.  This group shows none of the twisted backbone problems that arose in the next spawn, no.4.  2013 spawns #3 & 4 share the father Oishi Red & White and are from separate mothers.  Mother for spawn #3 has superior body, movement & balance with inferior head.  Mother for spawn #4 has superior head but lacks balance.







Saturday, August 9, 2014

9 weeks of summertime growth


First video is from June 2nd.  Second video is same group on Aug. 9th.



One of my favorites from the group: