New Ranchu :)

Went to MA today, expecting to just get some plants or some algae wafers for my apple snails. But ended up coming home with this beautiful Ranchu.

I was going to get two, but he seemed to be the only one swimming well, the other fish had their butts up in the air and seemed to be having difficulty breathing with their mouths constantly open.

Anyway, he's beautiful and settling in well, if not a bit shy. He's eating tetrafin Gold Japan sinking pellets, though I was told to only feed him one or two pellets once a day...is this right? I also feed my white clouds fish flake, freezedried daphnia and algae wafers for my apple snails

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His home though hiding!
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Going to get another one when I see a good "specimen"

Skunk x

I love ranchus. I had a lovely one with one eye, but de died. I dont do well with fancies....he looks great x

Is she in with tropicals? I have never done that...

No, the heaters aren't actually on! Just haven't taken them out :P

There are 10 WCMMs and 2 apple snails in there as well

Looks good but im not that keen on fancies. Are they in the 100L?

The 125L yeh bit small from what I'm thinking for the future. But will be getting a bigger tank though

Sounds good What temp is the tank theres quite a few other fish that vcan be kept around 18C+

Well, the temp gauge you can see on the tank says 23C, but of course they aren't very accurate, have put in my other floating one, so will let you know soon :P

Thats a good temp aslong as it stays fairly stable. Theres alot of fish that will do good in them temps. Hillstream loaches if the water if fast flowing, Alot of corys prefer lower temps, weather loaches and cherry shrimp will all work. Theres quite a few more but i wouldnt risk them with goldfish.

yeh, very stable, I've only ever seen it at 24C or 23C, looking at getting another Ranchu like I said, and wouldn't want to overload the tank as it just has an undergravel.

Fair enough. Sounds good to me. I just noticed the water level looks quite low. Is it normally like that? i normally fill to about 1" below the top.

Yeh, it is usually about 2-3" higher, but because of the problem with the apple snail I decided to add less water when I did a water change. Just in case there wasn't enough room above the water before.

O fair enough. My apple snails lay there eggs about 1" out the water but they will ly them anywhere thats out the water.

Yeh just trying different things. Want some eggs! :D

Haha Ones you have some and they just keep breeding week after week you will regret saying that haha. They are cool to watch hatch. My female died though but im going to keep a few of the babies and hope one turns out female.

Aww, sorry to hear about your female

What do you do with the babies? I'm looking at selling them over here and seeing if my lfs will take them, as when I went in they only had the two!

I only got 1 lot of eggs to hatch from them and there still to small to sell but when they are big enough ill probably see if my lfs will buy them.

he's so cute

Thanks!

He's starting to get settled in, fighting with the floating thermometer, etc :P

makes me want a ranchu now. My big fancy looks funny I will start another thread rather than pinch yours. xx

:D look forward to see him!

Just a little update

I now have the two Ranchus, my calico "Fuji" and my red-cap "MotoMoto". Moto is quite a bit smaller than Fuji, mainly not having a big round belly, or not quite as round. I thought that this was mainly because Fuji could be older.

But after some pestering from Moto, I went to look at breeding behaviours of Ranchu and how to sex. It seems I have a sexually mature boy and girl! Moto being the boy! It's unlikely that I'll get any fry, as they tend to eat their eggs as soon as they come out :p

Did a little vent check by holding them in a net while they're fully submerged and towards the front glass. The female, Fuji, has a convex vent, so it protrudes, and the male, Moto, has a concave, so it is intruded.

Exciting, but Moto seems to be really pestering her, so I don't want her to get stressed out >_>

Anyway! Got my new apple snails to grow up first!

Where's the photos?

Is breeding them something you would like to try? x

Photos up soon I use facebook, and that is currently dead Also, boo about practical fishkeeping forum being down too!

It is something I'd like to try yes , but not right now with my snails, and setting up another 3 tanks to move my axolotls, etc.

glad your fb is dead as mine is as well and I desperately NEED to play scrabble xx