Pearlscale Goldfish

<body bgcolor="#CCCCFF" background="../../back4.jpg" text="#0000FF" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" class="main"> <a name="top"></a><p align="center" class="headlink"><br>| <a href="../../index.htm" target="_top">Home</a> | <a href="ps-m.htm#top" target="main">Back to Pearlscale</a> | <a href="../goldfish.htm" target="_top">Back to Goldfish</a> |<br> </p> <h3 align="center">CHINESE PEARLSCALES</h3> <p align="center">Photographed in Hong Kong, 2003 and 2010</p> <h4>Red-white pearlscales</h4> <p align="center"><img src="very_round_pearlscales.jpg" width="400" height="255" border="0" alt="Chinese pearlscales"></p> <p>Note the fantail-type finnage and the good red colour in these fish; strong red colouration seems to be lacking in Western pearlscales which are usually orange-white. Notice also the extreme roundness of the bodies.</p> <h4>Tricolour pearlscales</h4> <p align="center"><img src="tricolour_pearlscale.jpg" width="300" height="200" border="0" alt="Chinese pearlscales"></p> <p>Black-white-red fish with fantail-style finnage.</p> <h4>Oranda pearlscales</h4> <table align="center" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td><img src="crown_pearlscale_2010-1.jpg" alt="black oranda pearlscale" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> <td><img src="crown_pearlscale_2010-2.jpg" alt="red oranda pearlscale" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Further oranda pearlscales photographed in Hong Kong, 2010.</p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td><img src="crown_pearlscales2.jpg" alt="oranda pearlscales" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> <td><img src="crown_pearlscales1.jpg" alt="oranda pearlscales" width="275" height="200" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p> These fish have an oranda-style hood: a prominent growth on the top of the head (cranial region) giving the appearance of a hood, with less well developed growths on the cheeks and gills (infra-orbital and opercular regions). Note that the finnage is longer (as in the ryukin and the man-yu), being intermediate between the fantail and the veiltail. Called crown pearlscales in the USA.</p> <h4>Fancy pearlscales</h4> <p align="center"><img src="fancy_pearlscales.jpg" width="400" height="250" border="0" alt="fancy pearlscales"></p> <p>Oranda pearlscales of various colours with larger than usual, bubble-like hoods. At bottom left is an oranda pearlscale dragon eye (an oranda pearlscale with globe eyes).</p> <p align="center">[<a href="ps-m.htm#top" target="main">Back</a>]    [<a href="#top">Top</a>]<br>© Bristol Aquarists' Society<br> </p> </body>