Calico Vs Sakura, My newly adopted Oranda Options

[chandramerpati]

Dear Friends....

I have adopted 2 baby oranda 2 months ago.
They are calico type and sakura type.

Calico Oranda.

Baby size. 10 cm.



Junior size. 13-14 cm after 2 months.






Sakura Oranda.

Baby size. 10 cm.



Junior size. 13-14 cm after 2 months.






I grow them in the 2 m x 1 m tube. Feeding regime is 2x Bloodworm/day and 6x Mixed Pellets (Hikari Lionhead-Nozomi Wheatgerm-Lobster Pellets).

I need comments for further developments.
Anyway, which one has the better potential? Are they eligible enough to go for a show?

Thanks.

[bekko]

You guys once taught me that 'sakura' means cherry blossom - like pink. If I'm not mistaken, sakura have a mixture of metallic and nacreous scales and the red pigment embedded deep in the skin looks pink when seen below the clear nacreous scales. Yes, or no?

-steve

[desireless]

You guys once taught me that 'sakura' means cherry blossom - like pink. If I'm not mistaken, sakura have a mixture of metallic and nacreous scales and the red pigment embedded deep in the skin looks pink when seen below the clear nacreous scales. Yes, or no?

-steve

Correct. This is a good topic that has two fishes of very close colour patterns. It helps in differentiating between Calico and Sakura colours.

To sidetrack a little, a lot of hobbyists thinks that only this type of colour

can be considered calico.
So when they see something like this

they call it "sakura with black pokka dots", which is incorrect.
To complicate things a little, many new colour types have been successfully bred by Tunghoi in recent years. The calico family is widen as a result. It is not surprising that a couple hobbyists that I know have confused tri-colour with calico.

On fishes of Sakura colour pattern, somtimes they do appear in a combinaiton of nacreous + metallic, and sometimes, purely nacreous. d_golem is correct to some extend - If the calico Oranda in this topic lost its black, then it would become a Sakura-coloured.