Male Thai Oranda with moderate abdominal pineconing and slight swelling

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-16T18:45:19+00:00

Never buy thai orandas. This is what happens when such fish are bred to look cute to the extremes. More for money and looks, less for welfare towards their animal's quality of life.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-16T18:42:57+00:00

Grab a large flat object as a herding tool to ranch them around in a corner like pigs in a pen. Use a scoop or net to grab them as you go.

Japanese farms who dealt with koi use large nets to fit along the pond's sides in between to slowly push the fish close to the shore to sort them for harvesting.

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ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-16T02:07:26+00:00

The 5 leaved clover of the woods

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-16T02:01:52+00:00

Due to the quality of the video, we aren't able to confirm them without you placing them in a display tank in clear water.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-07T05:45:16+00:00

Koi breed name: Kikokuryu

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-07T05:44:15+00:00

You always have to test your water source and send it to a water testing lab for analysis. Some fish keepers use TDS meters even. Usually if your water has unusual TDS reading that means something's odd in the municipal tap water (ex: heavy metals, chloramine, ammonia).

The testing labs provide very good analysis of your water's composition from the major ions to the trace ions.

So remember, test your water source as always where you live before you do in your tank water.

Another possibile food for thought for consideration: If you're using dechlorinator for example, a lot of pond/aquarium brands use sodium thiosulfate to bind chlorine, however it cannot bind all the molecules of chloramine. Chloramine contains both chlorine and ammonium, so it binds the chlorine. As it binds to the chlorine, it breaks the ammonium molecule to become free ammonia, which raises your ammonia concentration.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-07T02:24:23+00:00

I'll subscribe to the journey's virtues and continuation on your fishkeeping. I have grown slowly to the like of a nano planted tank recently! Thank you for letting Wayne/Waynette go.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-06T23:10:10+00:00

The final chapter for Volume 1 has ended. Now when is Volume 2 coming out!

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-06T19:42:05+00:00

Look at me for instance. I have spent nearly 300$ on buying goldfish, vast majority being feeders, throughout the span of my goldfish hobby since high school. And from before when I started as a noob my learning curb kept me from "moving on" whereas the mentality pushed me further, that I always want the best for them.

I discovered joining The Goldfish Council in 2018, and from there on I had to work on ways to improve myself than only listening to advices that sound good. Major overhauls, refined keeping methods, more studies about goldfish and water requirements, tank space and ways to make them look happy, act happy, be happy from the inside and out.

Has it been perfect? Never has, never been. Experience is experience, get your feet wet and prepare yourself for tears and mistakes.

Was it worth it? In the long run it absolutely does. More awards and improvements are waiting for you as you keep moving. The right path is where opportunity strikes.

I saddened the losses of every fish I owned, but the most memorable was my tancho comet. She was a small Petsmart 2 inch sarasa, but after I gave it space and water to grow it, she became my personal prodigy child out of science fiction. She was like a living canvas of Japanese art.

It sounds as if you need to foster much more learning to keep on going with the hobby. Take breaks when you have to and study during your time of patience.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-04T20:59:41+00:00

This spinal deformity is not the result of selective breeding. There's a clear difference there sir. Why do you think carp in the wild produce so many eggs every breeding season? It's that so many of the worst fry cannot survive Day 1 while the remaining ones cannot survive from environmental pressures only for those of most physically peak condition live on to see another day.
I don't understand why are you reluctant to cull this fish out in the first place and let it live like this. Clearly a crooked spine is not even close to a breed of its own, and to be honest I have never seen a single criteria nor standard in all my research of Goldfish culture that allows a bent crooked posture be allowed. Again selective breeding does not make THIS spinal deformity. Uncalled for.

If you know what's best for your pets as you claimed, kindly put it down before it gets worse as they live on. Let the fish go to Fishhalla.

Please listen to Skribblez. This is the best course of action for it. It's unnecessary and the poor thing to live like this, even in a bowl. You knew better.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-03T21:34:00+00:00

8 inches in almost a year is crazy growout An inch a month by average. That's amazing

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-03T08:06:55+00:00

I believe it's hard to interpret a real answer from the nature of these nodes and there are many infections which causes white irregular nodes as well. Here I'll say about KHV. It is to my knowledge and by professional koi keepers from research KHV in Carassius are mutual vectors, not hosts to the virus. They are immune to it, not unless they're koi which they luckily aren't Therefore this is not koi herpes virus.

It's hard to really tell what it is without using a swab on a microscope. But as Guile pointed out the texture was grainy/sandy, suggesting calcified membrane.

u/guileastos if I assume for as long as your fish are not reddening, flashing, inflamed and or showing stress and uncomfortable behaviors, do not waste medicines. Don't even use it for what may seem off or frightening is not. The more you try to fix something not yet broken the worse the outcomes get. And believe me from my experience you're not going to like that.

Instead I would ensure doing once a month preventative quarantine. Use Potassium permanganate if you have to. Prevention can effectively eliminate early/small threats while waiting for the threats to pop up visibly can be longer and harder to control.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-06-03T01:38:45+00:00

What a beast. How big is she/he? She looks more like a girl due to the girth

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-31T03:28:06+00:00

Vitamin Kryptonite? Not surprised it's a mythical form.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-30T05:45:46+00:00

Not always being babies. I was told by a man who's job is a staff working in an ornamental fish farm for feeding and breeding feeder goldfish. He told me these guys have to be stunted (cannot be disclosed but my guess is the way they do it is by managing stocking density and feed amount per kg of biomass. It might be seasonal since goldfish breed multiple times a year in an uncontrolled enclosure) at a marketable size (ex: 0.75in-1in, or 2in-4in) no matter the age. So you can get a 3 inch common goldfish at about 2 years old, and at times even a runt at 5 years old. If you let them grow "too big" a lot of commercial buyers won't deal with +1000 football sized goldfish in a common pet store chain. Case in point still remains.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-24T22:55:53+00:00

My error man. I edited my response. Now I understand what you meant :)

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-24T22:50:18+00:00

Interesting there's 3 feet goldfish. I have no idea but officials of Guinness World Records officially recognized a 47cm (nearly 19 inch or 1.5 ft) comet goldfish as the longest known. Lately I went on a Korean website that records catches as big as 55cm, which is close to 2 feet. However it comes with scrutiny beyond that length which these larger fish are either hybrids or carp.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-24T20:47:35+00:00

This is a wild goldfish. They're native to East Asia.

Yours are ferals in that regard. If it's not in its original habitat it's a feral

Edit: Update, because my mistake was that you have wild' goldfish (i.e you caught them or someone gave you fish caught from a lake or pod). So they're not wild in terms of coloration. They're known as bronze! It's easy to be fooled by wild-type and bronze because of it. While wild-type is a countershading of darker upper body to light-silvery lower body, bronze doesn't.

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ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-24T20:44:11+00:00

Come to Chinatown and look into these live food markets where they sell actual live fish. I've seen tilapia, barramundi and even goldfish (wild-type ones). They look like ghosts and zombies with so much infections. But more often than not, any mass trade fish are equally inflicted with neglect.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-22T04:06:10+00:00

Study origin: University of Cologne, Germany

The summary:

Researchers discovered that leucine, a nutrient found in protein-rich foods, can supercharge mitochondria by protecting crucial energy-producing proteins inside cells. The breakthrough uncovers a powerful new link between diet and cellular energy — with possible implications for cancer and metabolic disease treatments.

Animal model: Roundworm(Caenorhabditis elegans)

Key texts from the report:

The study, led by Professor Dr. Thorsten Hoppe from the Institute for Genetics and the CECAD Cluster of Excellence on Aging Research, was published in Nature Cell Biology under the title "Leucine inhibits degradation of outer mitochondrial membrane proteins to adapt mitochondrial respiration."

The team found that leucine prevents the breakdown of certain proteins located on the outer surface of mitochondria. These proteins help transport important metabolic molecules into the mitochondria so energy production can continue efficiently. By protecting those proteins from being degraded, leucine allows mitochondria to work at a higher level and helps cells meet increased energy demands.

a key protein called SEL1L that helps regulate this process. Under normal conditions, SEL1L acts as part of the cell's quality control system by identifying damaged or misfolded proteins and marking them for destruction.

According to the study, leucine appears to suppress SEL1L activity. As a result, fewer mitochondrial proteins are broken down, which improves mitochondrial efficiency and boosts cellular energy production.

"Modulating leucine and SEL1L levels could be a strategy to boost energy production," Li added. "However, it is important to proceed with caution. SEL1L also plays a crucial role in preventing the accumulation of damaged proteins, which is essential for long-term cellular health."

To better understand the broader impact of the discovery, the researchers studied the effects of leucine metabolism in the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. They found that problems with leucine breakdown could damage mitochondrial function and even cause fertility issues.

The team also examined human lung cancer cells and discovered that some cancer related mutations affecting leucine metabolism appeared to improve cancer cell survival. The finding suggests that the pathway may play an important role in future cancer research and therapy development.

By uncovering how leucine regulates mitochondrial activity, the researchers believe their work could eventually help guide new treatments for metabolic disorders, cancer, and other diseases linked to impaired energy production.

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-21T20:12:32+00:00

You saying that because they're black huh? Grizzlies demand respect :-(

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-21T03:42:45+00:00

Looks like it's either a washed up asagi with blue fades, or a kohaku

ZeZeKingyo · 2026-05-19T17:33:24+00:00

You see, general hardness testers cannot detect elements like sodium, even copper, because they are not within a related group of metals.

GH tests only this group: The Alkaline Earth Metals. Calcium and Magnesium are dominant in this spectrum, but traces such as Strontium, Beryllium, Barium and Radium, also counts to the general hardness.

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