Orandas
Lionheads
Bubble-Eye
Pom-Pom
Ryukin
Black Moor
These are some of the fancies I have had in the past...Ever seen a show tank with 5 giant Lionheads swimmimg in it, it's amazing...Or how about a 200g display tank filled with adult sized Orandas...It's the first tank that always greets me on my way down to the fishroom in the heart of Chinatown San Francisco...It's scenes like that remind where I once was as a beginner, afraid of venturing into the "heated" water aspect of fishkeeeping...
Breeding goldfish is simple as 1,2,3 or just 1....Yes "1"...
The 1,2,3
Find a long 20g plus tank...Place a lot of bush plants....Or, you can try spawning mops...Beef up temp to 70-72...Condition breeding hopefulls with mosquito larvae and other goodies...Male goldfish(and fancies) usually show white pimples on their gill slits when in breeding behaviour(don't freak out, it's not ich)...Females become plump with ripened eggs, their belly region take on a chiken egg-roundness...The male will chase the female around the tank and through the breeding media...I have had situations where a male would chase a female between the filter tubes and keep ramming her, while she was stuck...Be careful here...Sometimes males have been known to keep going and going, to a point where the female would die...When enough eggs have been laid, quickly seperate the egg eating parents from the eggs and hatch....
The "1" step
AkA "stripping, or milking"
Take a fish from both sexes and apply gentle outwards pressure from the belly to the anus...Takes some practice, but once achieved the skies the limit...
