Just drove to Portland and back with 5 more Large Laguna ponds! That's enough for two rows of 5! Now I just have to get rid of stuff to make room. Can't wait to have Ranchu in them.
This video is of the first feeding. They've never seen steamed egg before and they love it.
Two home grown duck eggs, soy beans and garlic ran through a garlic press. Scramble in the bowl, then double boiled to cook, stirring occasionally, with the lid on.
15x beautiful Suzuki x Kageyama too view Ranchu. Great fish and too views just missing anal fins. They'll make amazing pets. Some in top view are better than fish I kept for myself (but have double anal fins for thicker tails). These fish are for sale as pet grade fish. Other than missing an anal fin they are supper nice and a rare chance to get top quality known japanese bloodlines.
Culled the 25% fish missing anal fins, sorted by one or two anal fins picked my group then did an Eni Meeni Mini Mo sort, did a bit more sorting to make the groups even, assigned a letter to each and asked the recipients to rank their favorite group A, B, C without seeing the fish. It's amazing how after sorting fish for hours all you see are the flaws.
This is a batch of BBR for me and a few friends. They are BBR Suzuki X Kageyama bred by Paul at Ranchu Maniax with stocks obtained from Boss Ranchu Thailand.
Hattori Top View Ranchu spawned November 2010 by Hater from Ranchumaniax/Boss Ranchu stock. Kept in 20 gallon long with 4 inches of water on central recirculating system.
Itoh Top View Ranchu spawned November 2010 by Hater from Ranchumaniax/Boss Ranchu stock. Kept in 20 gallon long with 4 inches of water on central recirculating system.
Set up more shallow tanks. Used perforated pipe to calm the inflow which is at max flow. Very little current in the tank but with the low volume and high flow they can be feed all day long without water quality issues.
Last night I apparently got out of bed and mumbled something about culling bbr (baby black Ranchu). I was told to get back into bed and I retorted with what was wrong with a particular fish.
If you hold a net at its balancing point the effort required for fine motor skills is significantly reduced so you can concentrate on finding the good fish.