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[calicoly]

hey all, i'm new to this thingy, i live in australia melb. and i collect ranchu's mainly even though it takes forever to find a decent one! and i also like oranda's too!
so yeah just sayin hi

[lnicky]

Hi Calicoly, welcome to RG

I'm Aussie too and collects ranchus. It's hard to find a decent ranchu here which make you appreciate it more when you see a good one

There are many bros here who are experienced in keeping ranchus and can impart many wisdom to us newbies

[calicoly]

hello mate!
yeah i know its hard to find a decent ranchu ain't it?
but u know whats worse? the ridiculous prices!
on friday i went to a lfs and saw a ok looking lionhead, but they called it a ranchu,
and it was about 8 to 9 cm's and it was priced at $220

which part of australia r u from inicky?

[lnicky]

One LFS in Sydney sold a high grade ranchu for $600 and when I looked at it it's no better than AA grade. LFS also tend not to stock these high grade ranchus because ppl don't want to spend that kind of money

I feel that to get a good ranchu at a decent price you have to buy from a private owner.

There are a few OZ website that show ads for private sales in Australia. They can save you hundreds of dollars I recently got 2 -15 cm ranchus there for $120 each

[calicoly]

really?
wow, which one did u get urs from?

i know theree's this guy in sydney in haymarket thta has alot of goldies but i've never gotten any off him... even though he says he can ship them to me, but... u know i want to see and be able to pick what i'm getting

[lnicky]

Yeah I think it's the same person I bought my goldies from. I was lucky because I live only a few blocks from his house so I can choose what I want when he has a new batch. I posted a pic of two red ranchus I bought from him in this forum

Can you get him to send you a few photos that you can choose from?

I also saw an ad in petlink recently about a guy in Melb who is selling his 9 cm black ranchu for $110. Did you check it out?

This post has been edited by lnicky: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 4:12 pm

[calicoly]

the guy that advert about the black ranchu was me!
and i ain't a guy
u lucky duck!
u live only a few blocks from him!!!
i never thought to ask him that i'll try
i tried to ask a friend if she wanted to come wif me to sydney to check out his fish and she said HELL NO! not for fish's!



last week i went to a lfs and bought 3 jumbo size short body oranda's well that's what they were called, for $320 and two are dead already and i want back to the lfs and found out that the rest that were for sale had all died too except for one... dont know what was wrong wif them, the guy didn't give me back my money or nothing, so i was quite upset

[lnicky]

really!!!

If you want to come to see the fish you'd better wait for the new batch so the good ones are still there. Let me know if you decide to come to Sydney so I can take you fish shopping

[calicoly]

definately, as i've never been to sydney at all
my mom's goin to a wedding there in may so hopefully i can tag along and use that as a excuse to get my fish's
melb has really crap fish's
what about sydney?? do u guys get much good fish's?

[lnicky]

definately, as i've never been to sydney at all
my mom's goin to a wedding there in may so hopefully i can tag along and use that as a excuse to get my fish's
melb has really crap fish's
what about sydney?? do u guys get much good fish's?

We get lots of good ryukins and orandas as they have more demand. an XL A+ or AA probably cost you $80 a piece compared to $150 for ranchus.

There are a couple of good LFS that stock nice goldies. TransAquarium in Canley Vale is a goldfish specialist so they have large stocks of goldfish -ryukins, orandas (they have blue/black orandas), bubble eyes etc.

Lam in Parammatta occasionally has nice ryukins and orandas (I bought the best jumbo veiltail ryukin there).

I just hope that one day someone bring a TVR to OZ. I guess it's a bit hard since Japan is not on the approved list of goldfish exporter in Australia.

This post has been edited by lnicky: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 6:05 pm

[calicoly]

w do u prefer tvr or svr?
with me i like the side view ranchu's but i normally go for the big wen growth more then anything else, i know that 's not ver professional way to look at it but i find a full wen cute!
oh i saw ur pics of ur ranchu's i love the calico one!
my calico one died a few months ago and i cant find another one to relace it...

i didn't know japan wasnt allowed in?? so the lfs owners that say there fish ranchu is from japan there lying???

[lnicky]

w do u prefer tvr or svr?
with me i like the side view ranchu's but i normally go for the big wen growth more then anything else, i know that 's not ver professional way to look at it but i find a full wen cute!
oh i saw ur pics of ur ranchu's i love the calico one!
my calico one died a few months ago and i cant find another one to relace it...

i didn't know japan wasnt allowed in?? so the lfs owners that say there fish ranchu is from japan there lying???

AQIS Import Condition - C9976 Live freshwater fish may only be imported from approved countries listed below:

Bahrain
Belgium
China
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
French Polynesia
Germany
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Kenya
Malaysia
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seychelles
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Thailand
United States of America (USA)

so Japan is not on the list so I assumed you can't import from there. I never believed when LFS owner says their fish are from Japan. Most goldies in OZ are from China or Malaysia

I personally like SVR but TVR is in a class of its own and share the same status as koi. TVR are beautiful but you must have pond and you must have hot weather all year round (which means Melb is out of the picture )

[calicoly]

four seasons in one day down here! forget it!
how s ur calico?

i wonder what type of fish there is to import from kenya!??? lol

[lnicky]

four seasons in one day down here! forget it!
how s ur calico?

i wonder what type of fish there is to import from kenya!??? lol

My calico died a month ago due to internal bacterial infection.

I think Kenya mainly for marine fishes

[calicoly]

oh i'm very sorry! didn't want to bring up old wounds...
my calico died a few months ago too from this weird disease it had these weird bubble clear lumps all over it, dont know waht it was, i've never seen it in my life!