Following the migration of the remaining guppies in the original 2-feet Guppy Tank (see Future of the Guppy Tank), we have planned a new beginning for the tank — by introducing Goldfishes into it.
The initial interest in Goldfish started out from Cat, where we bought a nano tank to house two young goldfishes, named Zhu Zhu and Hua Hua (see New GoldFishes).
As for me, I was not interested in goldfishes initially but after walking through the goldfish tanks/containers in Qian Hu (a huge and famous fish farm locally), I was beginning to be mesmerized by their beauty.
And so given the opportunity that we had an empty tank, and a rather big tank (2-feet), the idea of getting more goldfishes (and bigger ones) came to our minds.
And so early yesterday morning, we drove down to Qian Hu and began our Goldfish shopping. There were bigger, better quality Ranchu at S$30 each, and smaller ones at S$12. After considering quite a while, we decided to just get the S$12 ones and witness them grow bigger. We got two Ranchus (Cat’s favourite).
As for me, I’m more interested in goldfishes with long, flowing tails and so the Orandas (a cross between the lionhead and veiltail to produce a fish showing the body features of the veiltail with the characteristic hood of the lionhead) caught my eyes immediately. We bought two Orandas at S$5 each (cheaper than the Ranchus).
We also bought three Gouramis for the main Planted Tank.
As we needed to rush off after we reached home, we only placed their plastic bags floating on the tanks (to adjust to the right water temperature for the fishes) for a while before opening the bags and netting them into their respective tanks.
When we reached home in the evening, we turned on the lights and one of the Ranchus was shocked and quickly hid underneath one of the bridge ornaments, refusing to come out despite us dropping some food pellets in front of him.
Fortunately, after we left them alone for a while, they gradually became braver and started to swim around the tank leisurely. That was when we managed to see them displaying their torso and fins:
The Ranchus:
The Orandas:
Check out their individual photos at our Current Fishes page.
Filed under: Newcomer | Tagged: goldfish, Oranda, Qian Hu, ranchu
