Just Bought A Ranchu, what u guys think? Options

[d_golem]

Firstly sorry about my lousy photo skills.

A grade Thai ranchu (according to the tank label).

I think this is also a TVR reject based on the wen shape.

3 inches (8 cm) long from nose to tip of tail.

First non-local (non Australian-bred) ranchu I bought. Price AU$30 (of course quite expensive but what can you do if u live in OZ).

What do you guys think? And what can I do to improve this ranchu to become a good mature SVR? (apart from fattening it up of course)

[bekko]

Thank you very much for that lead Goldrush. I need to do a lot more reading on this, but it seems very possible there is some connection. In addition to vitamin E deficiency, they say steatitis is associated with rancid fats in the feed.

The salmon starter feed is very oily. I was using it because a 20 kg bag only cost about $40 US delivered. However, it took me many months to use up 20 kg. The bag was too big to put in the refrigerator and it is very possible the vitamin E had deteriorated and the fats turned rancid.

By the way, I was also raising guppies at that time and they were being given the same feed. After finding the fat deposits in the goldfish I opened up some guppies and found they had fat deposits around the intestine too. I then checked some feral guppies in a ditch which were not being fed and did not find any fat. It was at that point I decided the oily feed was the problem. At the time, I assumed the problem was the high fat content but you are making me understand that it may not have been the fat content but the feed deterioration that was the problem.

I need to be more careful. A friend who reads here repackages her feed in smaller packets and freezes them until she is ready to use one.

-steve

This post has been edited by bekko: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 6:34 pm