Ga 004 - Ranchu Options

[yamato38gunkei]

What do you all think of this Nisai Ranchu ? Thai ? Japanese ?

[Frankie]

It is impossible to buy the best Ranchu, because the breeders keep the best for themselves, for their students and for the members belonging to their group e.g. Kashino Ranchu Group.
We also should know that from every high quality spawning only a very small number are good enough to be developed as high quality Show Ranchu.
I think that the best way to obtain the very best Ranchu is to try to buy Seed Ranchu from famous breeders or famous bloodlines and to try to breed the High Quality Ranchu yourself.

I'm so confused. If breeders such as Kashino keep the best for themselves, then is there any value to those ranchus that they put up for sale to the general public?

I assume such breeders have special skills in culling. And with this skill, the young fish that they put up for sale to the general public are the lousier ones? Afterall, even an amatuer breeder knows how to cull fries with obvious defects, keeping less obviously defective one longer and cull them again when the defects are more obvious. So the worse kind to buy are really the black babies, isn't it? Afterall, I can't think of any reason why Kashino would put up babies with potential for sale to the general public! Heck, if you don't belong to his group, even the tosai/nisai he sells you are probably not that great. So I imagine a few diehards here are realizing they have been taken for a ride with those "Japanese" ranchus they paid good money for. You've been buying craps!