The underwater world captivates with its beauty. While not everyone can explore ocean depths through diving, anyone can bring a piece of that aquatic wonder into their home with an aquarium. Among all available fish species, goldfish remain the most attractive choice for aquarists worldwide.
The starfish or heaven’s eye (cho-tengan) is a short-bodied breed of goldfish. It only became known to Europeans at the beginning of the last century. Although Chinese vases with the image of these living wild creatures reached Europe much earlier.
Aquarium goldfish water eyes became known to European aquarists only in the middle of the last century. This varietate to this day remains a rarity. This is due to its rather high price, as well as more than exotic unusual species, and most importantly, it is relatively difficult to keep.
Fish Wakin Goldfish – a breed of goldfish, which is considered the forerunner of all goldfish with a split tail. Therefore, to bypass it will simply not be correct. Although because of its size wakin more suitable for keeping in the pond, but if you want to keep and in the aquarium.
Ranchu fish is a variety of goldfish, bred by breeders in Japan supposedly two hundred to three hundred years ago. In their homeland, it is considered the top of the art of breeders. Therefore, purebred, not hybrid ranchu have a very high price. In the nineteenth century, ranchu was accidentally brought to Russia, where it was more often called maruko.
The oranda or red cap is a helmeted breeding form of goldfish. Some researchers believe that it was known in Japan as early as the fifteenth century. Japanese beauty standards not always understood by Europeans say that this fish is more beautiful the more fatty growth on its head.
Shubunkin is a variety of goldfish bred in Japan. In Japanese pronunciation its name sounds like shibunkin. And the sound familiar to us today – shubunkin is the result of passing the word through European languages. In Europe, the fish first appeared after the First World War, from where it was imported to Russia and the Slavic countries.
Ryukin is another breeding form of goldfish. It is believed that this breed was imported to Japan around the sixteenth century from the Ryukyu archipelago or in another reading Ryukyu. To what the fish owes its name.
Demekin goldfish is another original form of Goldfish, obtained by artificial selection. Many generations of fish breeders have worked hard to obtain such a fish, as well as to fix the changes at the genetic level.