OK, let's say you could mix any features from any goldie breed. What would you want?

I want a PANDA ORANDA. Not only does the name sound cool, but i think it would look awesome!

I would love to have a pearlscale ranchu mix...

They do look awesome, but usually they don't hold their coloring. Mine turned into a "sort of lemonhead" oranda. He was cute as a panda though.

Anything with more fins than fish would be my dream fish. I LOOOOOVE BIG fins.

I would like any oranda with an unusual color. Aside from that, I would like a comet with a wen like an oranda's.

I wonder if they exist yet...

I would love a fancy goldfish that could be immune to SBD!

Ooh, I wouldn't mind a pond full of panda kois. That would be SO COOL!

I would love a tancho ranchu. Too cute!

A oranda+ranchu+toaskin = one awsome looking fish

The possibilities!

A tosakin mixed with a jikin.

At the moment I'd really just be happy with a orange & brown colored oranda...lol And a pearlscale and..and and...

I have a pearlscale/ryukin. He/she (can't tell yet) is actually turning out to be a really neat fish. It has a very round body, and pearlscales but also has a long broadtail, ryukin hump and spangles! The spangles are shaped like pearlscales! He is orange with black and yellow patches and his fins are streaked orange, black and white. I can't wait to see what he looks like as a mature goldfish. This fish eats like a pig and has gone from a quarter inch long in April to almost 3 inches now! My son named him Pumpkin ('cause he looks like one!).

Angela

wow, your fish sounds so neat, sorry if im changing the topic but can you get a pic?

i would love a ryukin with a huge wen like a oranda in red white and blue, patriotic fish

I'd like a black moor with a butterfly tail, pearl scale body shape and no dorsal fin.

Though on the realistic front... I'd like to find a female butterfly moor at my LFS... they only have the normal fancy tailed ones... and if I get my 25 gallon, I want to have a butterfly to put in with Leo. Giving more space in the 40 gallon for growing fishies, as well as getting the slower swimming and poorly sighted fish out of the way of my bully.

Right now,more than anything,I'd like to get a hold of either a Deep Blue Lionhead,or Ranchu.
I know someone that has these fish,I'm just waiting for babies.
Another choice would be a Frogshead, Now that I'm thinking about it,this person has one of those too!

Oh,one more...it's not seen much around here,but I'd love a Black Bubble Eye or Celestial.
Our fish stores,although there are many,really are bad for any selections.

WOW! Your fish sounds truly awesome !!!!



I had fry to a blackmoor and a butterfly tail a while ago but I lost them


I too have been in a long search for a panda oranda



Devs..........what is a Frogshead???????

I've tried to get pics of this guy. The best picture I've managed so far is a blurry orange blob with red-eye. Doesn't really give much of an indication of how beautiful he looks!



He is neat. He is one of the spawn that Andrew (Fish Sempai) gave me to try to raise in the spring. This is the one I decided to keep as it had an even split of traits from both parents. It's really funny to look at him. His face is exactly like a ryukin, pointy and wedge shaped, but then his body just keeps expanding outward in all directions back past his gills. Then you add the hump and he looks even fatter! But he is a strong swimmer and quick like a ryukin, I guess 'cause he got their fins.

Angela

Sharon - there was this perfectly lovely black celestial for sale at the show last August - quite cheap. She was only about $65!!! But...... I was bartering for another fish at that time, and she was purchased before I could get to her!!!! But, they are out there!!!!!

I am working SOOOOO hard on blue babies.... I am feeding blood worms and changing water. I have a nice 20L nicely cycled with a big sponge filter just waiting.......

If I could trust Kermit with a little female, the genetics of one fish I have would most likely produce nicer red/white or calico frogheads...... I am just afraid that Mr. Maniac Fish would kill the female in the process and I have so few good females at this time I am loathe to try. I am working on learning to hand spawn a male - and when I have success, Kermit will, hopefully, be a daddy!!!!

If you get any calico frogheads from Mr. Maniac, I want one!!!! Hopefully the fry get the personality traits from Mommy. If my guys ever reproduce, I'll send you one of my ranchu/pearlscale/ryukin hybrids. (I can only imagine what that would look like...probably Quasimodo! Humps and lumpy heads, fat bodies, broadtail fins and pearlscales...hmmm )

Angela

I want a black fantail or panda fantail or anything fantail.

Now that i think about it, I've never seen a balck fantail myself. A solid black one would be awesome....

Lucky you Carol,as our local areas carry nothing like that.
And keep working on those Blues for I am so ready for one!
And Kermit....all I can say is Kermit will be a tough one to manipulate.

I would have to say a albino ranchu with a tosakin tail . But the ultimate fish is my ranchu!

i would like to add. A chocolate pearlscale ranchu mix, and a blue pearlscale ranchu mix.

just the other the other day i saw a mix of comet and a fantail it had the egg-shape body but a single tail and he is only 2 bucks!

I would love to have any kind, with the longest prettiest tail ever. I am a suck for long flowy fins!

A lemonhead calico...but with only a lemon head, totally blue body, and black spots. No orange.

Honestley, I would just like a fantail with SUPER long fins -- I dunno who said it earlier but I agree and also think long fins are lovely...

i actually read in a book that a frogshead is a variation that has a wen, and sacs beneath its eyes... sometimes their heads get so heavy, that they just "rest" with their faces down, and their tails up in the air!

i'd like a white, not albino, phoenix/tosakin... long fins with a curl!

wait, i want to add more. i want those with a tosakin tail too.

Panda Telescope that never loses his panda coloring. Also, for my little Mithra to end up with the longest fins I've seen, (she's tiny and already has some nice fins compared to my others).

I saw a very nice looking golfish on ebay, the seller says it's a moor and pearlscale mix. That goldfish was a moor but with pearlscale's scale and pearlscale's wen. Pretty cool and very cute looking. This fish's winning bid was 102 dollars, i guess it's pertty cheap because i've never seen a fish like that before. I saved the pictures but i don't know how to upload it. If anyone can teach me how to insert pictures, that'll be great.

I love RYUKINS and RYUKINS it will be. I would enjoy a violet ry., an aquamarine blue ry., a turquoise ry., a green ry.......... with natural melanin!!!!!!

Definitely a NO NO to artficial dyed fish. They all should be banned by LFS worldwide!

Kermit, the froghead, is anything but quiet. He has NO problem swimming, thrashing, or tearing apart tanks, deco and other fish. He is a lovely fish.....



This is a froghead:

I understand that there is someone who breeds Jikin crosses that have a phoenix type tail. That sounds really cool to me and I imagine they would look something like this:

The funny thing here is that the small lfs near me has approx. 5" panda orandas (several of them), but their overall selection isn't that great, so I'm going to need to look elsewhere if I want anything else!

The pandas *are* nice. If only I had more tanks.

Wish I had some Jikin! Tamasabas rock, too. I'm a sucker for the Japanese concoctions.

panda oranda - heh heh heh.

wow, daryl, kermit is beautiful. Has he ever caused some water damage?

I wished I could have short bodied orandas with long flowing tails and good wen growth again. Its so hard to find them around here. Besides that I would like to have a panda lionhead with a long tail and fins or just a panda lionhead at least.
This afternoon when I visited the fish store they had some panda ranchus on sale, too bad I dont have enough room for them.

Heh I agree with JohnF on the color variations of fish. It'd be amazing to see a NATURAL goldie with those kinds of colors. Dyed ones however... Too evil. I've actually seen a few before in this small lfs dyed a bunch of odd colors, and while they were neat they weren't very... you know lively looking Mostly just floating around. It was a shame. Same store had "tattooed" oscars. Ickk.

But ones with some natural crazy colors would be neat

I would LOVE a Blue Siamese Doll.

I love their 'daintiness' and long, flowing fins. And the color blue just makes me drool.

Of course, I would want the usual health problems associated with Dolls to be absent. My Albino Doll that I've had for 5 1/2 years has been sick 3 times and she often swims funny, but she always recovers quickly and has been an awesome gf.

Lisa

I reckon a LIONHEAD RANCHU - so you'd get a Lionhead face/body with long fins. Wow! lol

a silver oranda with a black wen... A fish I could name after my hubby:D

sorry i mean a Lionhead Oranda

Hehe, for a second I was all confused.

Isn't that what they call a phoenix lionhead?

I think a Comet/Oranda cross would be cool.

Maybe in about a year I could breed my Comet and Oranda and see what the babies would look like.