Midnight x Bristol (Wolf) 1st spawn

Transparent fish from Bristol x Midnight shubunkin cross

Black x Japanese shubunkin

Midnight Shubunkin Male x Japanese Shubunkin Female (melanoma) 8/15/11 spawn

Today I found a Japanese Shubunkin female caught up on the pond netting that drooped into the pond.  She was dripping with bright orange eggs when I picked her up.  I floated her in a tub, gathered some hornwort and caught the midnight male from the pond.  Squeezed them over the hornwort and got them back into the pond.  While the female isn't a midnight she is so melanistic that I noticed she was missing a pelvic fin.  A closer look revealed that it had been replace with a melanoma.  

Hopefully black to black = more black.

The Midnight Shubunkin Male.  He's been crossed to

Bristols and now Japanese Shubunkins this season.

Japanese Shubunkin Female (melanoma) crossed (IV) to midnight Shubunkin 

male on hornwort. Missing a pelvic fin due to melanoma.  Bright orange eggs.

Japanese Shubunkin Female missing pelvic fin due to melanoma

Crossed to midnight Shubunkin male. Missing a pelvic fin due to melanoma.

Midnight Shubunkin Male

The Midnight Shubunkin Male.  He's been crossed to
Bristols and Japanese Shubunkins this season.

Ranchu Breeder's Social XII

Enjoying Gary's new pond.

Hunting the Great Black Midnight Shubunkin.

My favorite Midnight.  White Lightning.

Wow.

Black and Blue with a bit of yellow for good measure.

This fish looked mean.

Sorting fish.

Tosakin.

Mita Ranchu.

Nice Tail.

Same fish different view.

Nothing like sorting Matsuyama in the morning.  I brought 10 home, they were spawned on 8/8/8.

A smaller group this year but we had a great time, Thanks Gary!

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