![]() Various species of carp (collectively known as Asian carp) have been bred and reared as food fish for thousands of years in East Asia. Red bubble eye shown at GSGB 2005, with large, well balanced eye bubbles.Ryukin goldfish, Plate XIX in Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan, by Shinno suke Matsubara. Red bubble eye shown at BAS 2005, with shorter tail lobes and a deeper body. Red bubble eye shown at BAS 2003, with long tail lobes and a somewhat slender body. Red metallic bubble eye shown at BAS 2008, more conformant to the standard in that it has shorter finnage. On the right is a young adult, variegated red-orange/silver-white fish with the long finnage and slender body of a Far Eastern lineage its eye bubbles could ideally be slightly larger but they are well matched in size. On the left is a mature adult, self-coloured yellow metallic fish, close to the standard, but with rather long tail lobes, although it is nicely self-coloured, lemon yellow being unusual in this type. ![]() Photographed in Hong Kong, December 2003. Note the range of tail types, from the thin-lobed, deeply forked (typical Far Eastern) in the red fish on the left edge of the picture, to the shallow-forked, full tail in the red fish in roughly the equivalent position on the right. It is fairly common to seeįish with one eye sac larger than the other this does not affect the fish atĪll, but makes it appear unbalanced. Notice that all the fish illustrated on these two pages have nicely balancedĮye sacs, matching each other in size and shape. Quality fish should have a high intensity of colour evenly distributed over the body, with colour, especially black, extending into the fins. Quality fish will have high colour intensity and metallic shine extending into the fins.Ĭalico fish should have a blue background with patches of violet, red, orange, yellow, brown and white, spotted with black. Metallic fish may be self-coloured (red, orange, yellow, blue, brown or black) or variegated (any combination of red, orange, yellow, blue, brown, black and white) in a pleasing pattern similar on each side. The eye sacs should be well developed and evenly matched. The caudal fin should be well divided, forked and held above the horizontal. The body should be medium length with smooth contours and no sign of a dorsal fin. Minimum length of body to be 5.5 cm (2¼ inches).Eye sacs under and around sides of each eye.Dorsal fin to be absent, all other fins to be paired and their extremities slightly rounded.Caudal fin to be divided and forked with slightly rounded well spread lobes held above the horizontal.Depth of body to be approximately 50% of body length.There is also a type with double bubbles, one just under the eye on each side (like the traditional, single bubbles) and one just below and to the rear of the mouth on each side. In the Far East, bubble eyes with the combination of small bubbles and celestial type eyes are Given proper accommodation, the bubbles do not disadvantage the fish and they Types and away from sharp tank decor, although the bubbles will regrow if punctured. The bubbles are fragile and the fish should be kept separately from boisterous ![]() Specimens will have a clean back and eye bubbles well matched for colour and The bubble eye is comparatively rare in UK.
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